SELECTED DATA FOR UCX AND STATE UI PROGRAMS (PART 1)

1 Percentage increase over corresponding period in previous fiscal year; minus sign indicates decrease.

2 Ratio of weeks claimed to initial claims.

For UCX program: Average weekly insured unemployment as a percentage of average strength (employment) of armed services for 12-month period lagged 6 to 9 months; for State UI programs: Average weekly insured unemployment as a percentage of average covered employment for 12-month period lagged 6 to 9 months.

• Not applicable.

Note: Quarterly data do not necessarily add to totals for year, because of rounding.
Source: Unemployment Insurance Service, Manpower Administration, Aug. 4, 1971.

ATTACHMENT C

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR RETURNING VETERANS-THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER TO SECRETARY OF LABOR JAMES D. HODGSON REQUESTING A COORDINATED EFFORT BY FEDERAL AGENCIES AND BUSINESS. DATED JUNE 11, 1971. RELEASED JUNE 13, 1971

Dear Mr. Secretary:

We have recently had occasion to discuss the serious need for increasing employment opportunities for our returning veterans. As you know, I am greatly concerned at any denial of civilian job opportunities to these young men who have borne the burden of fighting. I am also deeply concerned at the evidence that the most serious problem is experienced by those with educational deficiencies or other disabilities.

I am directing you to assume leadership of an intensive effort to place unemployed Vietnam-era veterans in jobs or training and to establish procedures which will provide employment for veterans as we continue phasing down the

war in Vietnam. This will require effective mobilization of Federal resources. You have my personal mandate to undertake this task in coordination with Chairman James Oates of the Jobs for Veterans Committee, and you will have the full support of other Federal agencies.

This is an effort which I consider to be of the highest priority in Federal manpower and training programs, and of such importance that every available program should be used to the maximum toward achieving its goals. To speed action, I call upon all Government agencies to draw fully upon resources and authority already at hand.

In fulfilling this important charge, I ask that you include the following actions among those which you get under way immediately:

1. Draw upon the resources of the National Alliance of Businessmen. The Jobs for Veterans Program already has done much to attract the attention and support of communities throughout the Nation. In collaboration with Chairman Oates, you should develop, with Mr. John Harper, chairman of the board of the National Alliance of Businessmen, a specific program to increase the participation of American business in providing additional employment opportunities for Vietnam-era veterans. The National Alliance of Businessmen, through its promotion of the Job Opportunities in the Business Sector (JOBS) Program, has displayed a remarkable capability to mobilize the American business community in response to a national problem. I am therefore confident that the Alliance has much to contribute in this important area.

2. Work with the Secretary of Defense to expand substantially the Transition Program for separating servicemen in order to increase the opportunities for improving job counselling, job training, and placement. This should provide increasing numbers of those separating from military service, including those returning from overseas, with a counselling and testing service, and for those in need, a chance to receive any necessary job skill training, and job or school placement. For this purpose, U.S. employment offices and designated Defense Training Centers will be used, with Labor, VA, and HEW support.

3. Immediately augment the number of training opportunities for returning veterans and encourage veteran and employer participation. This will include such measures as increasing veteran participation in special manpower assistance programs, on-the-job training, additional public service careers opportunities, and veterans job earmarking in new apprenticeship program approvals. Veteran training participation and completion should be encouraged through maximizing the opportunities for veterans to draw dual GI Bill and MDTA benefits, as recently authorized by the Congress. Any necessary priority modifications to assure adequate enrollment of returning veterans in MDTA programs should be made without delay.

4. Require listing of all job openings with the U.S. Employment Service by all agencies and contractors funded by the Federal Government. This will be accomplished soon through issuance of an Executive order. While the order will stipulate that there is no requirement to hire through the public employment services, existing policies on veterans preference will greatly expand the number of job openings available to veterans.

5. Greatly increase the effectiveness of the U.S. Training and Employment Service in finding and opening jobs and job-training opportunities for returning veterans. This effort should seek prompt results and cover the full range of USES services-including personal contact and registration of veterans, counselling, job development and registration with employers, and job placement. I expect definite goals of reducing veteran unemployment by specified target dates, together with regular reports of accomplishment. Each returning veteran must be reached and served by this effort. You should take full advantage of other federally financed field staffs which could be used for these purposes. Special measures will be adopted to assure that black veterans and other minority veterans get help in proportion to their great need.

6. Provide special Labor/VA services for Vietnam-era veterans who have been drawing unemployment compensation for three months or longer. These men should be referred immediately to the U.S. Employment Service, to the Veterans Administration, and, where serious employment handicaps are indicated, to State vocational rehabilitation agencies for special counselling and placement in jobs or training.

Because of the importance of the entire effort, I ask that you make biweekly progress reports to me. The arrangements for these reports and any other necessary assistance should be made with the Office of Management and Budget. I know that I can count on your full energies and the support of all Government

agencies in this vital national effort to provide the returning veteran what he has earned a smooth transition to civilian life and meaningful work.

Sincerely,

RICHARD NIXON.

[Honorable James D. Hodgson, Secretary of Labor, Washington, D.C. 20210]

ATTACHMENT D

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR RETURNING VETERANS-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11598. JUNE 16, 1971-TO PROVIDE FOR THE LISTING OF CERTAIN JOB VACANCIES BY FEDERAL AGENCIES AND GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS

Large numbers of veterans are now leaving the Nation's armed forces, and many of them have been encountering severe difficulties in making the transition to civilian life-in particular, many have found it difficult to locate and secure a job.

The Nation owes these veterans not only its deepest thanks for their sacrifice and their service, but also its assistance in their efforts to resume normal civilian activities.

In order to provide such assistance, the Federal Government has established a policy of helping veterans obtain employment, including the provision of special programs of job counseling and placement. It also is the policy of the Federal Government to require that veterans be given a preference in job referrals through the employment service system.

It would facilitate the employment of returning veterans-and thereby further the Federal policy of aiding their transition to civilian life-to require that Federal agencies and Federal contractors and their subcontractors list certain employment openings with the employment service system.

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. The Secretary of Labor shall issue rules and regulations requiring each department and agency of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government to list suitable employment openings with the appropriate office of the State Employment Service or the United States Employment Service. This section shall not be construed as requiring the employment of individuals referred by such office or as superseding any requirements of the Civil Service laws.

SEC. 2(a). Those rules and regulations shall also require Government contracts, above a specified dollar amount and providing specified employment potential, to contain assurances that the contractor, and any subcontractor holding a contract directly under that contractor, shall, to the maximum extent feasible, list all of its suitable employment openings with the appropriate office of the State employment service system: Provided, That this section shall not be deemed to apply to openings which the employer proposes to fill from within such employer's agency or organization; and Provided further, That listing of employment openings with the employment service system pursuant to this Order shall involve only the normal obligations which attach to such listings.

(b) The rules and regulations of the Secretary with respect to this section shall not be retroactive in effect.

SEC. 3. The Secretary of Labor shall gather information on the effectiveness of the program established under this Order and the extent to which the employment service system is fulfilling the employment needs of veterans. The Secretary of Labor shall, from time to time. report to the President concerning his evaluation of the effectiveness of this Order along with his recommendations for further action which the Secretary believes to be appropriate.

SEC. 4. Except as otherwise provided by law, all executive departments and agencies are directed to cooperate with the Secretary of Labor, to furnish the Secretary of Labor with such information and assistance as he may require in the performance of his functions under this Order, and to comply with rules, regulations, and orders of the Secretary.

SEC. 5. Rules, regulations, and orders to implement section 1 shall be developed in consultation with the Civil Service Commission. Appropriate departments and agencies shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, issue appropriate amendments or additions to procurement rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order.

The White House

June 16, 1971

RICHARD NIXON.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:57 a.m., June 17, 1971]

ATTACHMENT E

[From the Federal Register, Vol. 36, No. 143-Saturday, July 24, 1971]

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

[41 CFR Part 50-250]

MANDATORY LISTING OF JOB VACANCIES WITH FEDERAL-STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE SYSTEM

NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE MAKING

Executive Order No. 11598 (36 F.R. 11711), promulgated by the President on June 16, 1971, stated that:

Large numbers of veterans are now leaving the Nation's armed forces, and many of them have been encountering severe difficulties in making the transition to civilian life-in particular, many have found it difficult to locate and secure a job.

The Nation owes these veterans not only its deepest thanks for their sacrifice and their service, but also its assistance in their efforts to resume normal civilian activities.

In order to provide such assistance, the Federal Government has established a policy of helping veterans obtain employment, including the provision of special programs of job counseling and placement. It also is the policy of the Federal Government to require that veterans be given a preference in job referrals through the employment service system.

It would facilitate the employing of returning veterans-and thereby further the Federal policy of aiding their transition to civilian life-to require that Federal agencies and Federal contractors and their subcontractors list certain employment openings with the employment service system.

The Order directed, among other things, that certain Government contracts contain assurances that the contractor's suitable employment openings be listed with the appropriate offices of the State employment service system, directed the Secretary of Labor to issue rules and regulations, and directed that necessary implementing amendments or additions to procurement rules and regulations be issued by appropriate departments and agencies in consultation with the Secretary of Labor.

Pursuant to the aforementioned authority, it is proposed that a new Part 50250 be added to Title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

Interested persons may submit written statements, data, views, or arguments in regard to any or all of the policies or procedures contained in this proposal by mailing them to the Secretary of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor, 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210, within 30 days after this notice is published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

The proposed 41 CFR Part 50-250 reads as follows:

PART 50-250-MANDATORY LISTING OF JOB VACANCIES WITH THE FEDERAL-STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE SYSTEM

Sec.

AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 50-250 are issued under Executive Order Na. 11598, 36 F.R. 11711.

$50-250.1 Purpose and scope.

This part contains the Department of Labor's rules and regulations relating to the implementation of Executive Order No. 11598.

$50-250.2 Federal departments and agencies.

Federal executive departments and agencies, in order to implement the policy