This note reviews the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), emphasizing prohibited employment practices, litigation procedures, and remedial measures for violations of the act. Problems typically faced in ADEA litigation are also explored with focus on the employee's burden of proof. (LBH)

The focus of this congressional hearing on job retraining is on examination of the linkage between industrial competiveness and retraining and examination of the actions necessary to ensure that American workers are equipped with appropriate skills. Testimony includes statements and prepared statements from Representatives in Congress and from…

This document features the proceedings of a 3-day workshop which highlighted a 12-month project focusing on educational personnel who work with the handicapped. The document contains four major addresses: "An Overview of the Expanding Federal Commitments to Vocational Education and Employment of Handicapped Individuals" by William Halloran;…

This paper reviews the problems that recent immigrants to Hawaii encounter. Available data about recent immigrants are quite limited in scope because the information (a) fails to focus specifically on recent immigrants; (b) fails to include appropriate samples, and (c) contains many methodological biases. Since the passage of the present…

The study examines the retention problems of minority apprentices in the construction industry. It examines personal characteristics, factors internal to the job, factors external to job, and their effects upon retention in four cities: Denver, Cleveland, Dallas, and Philadelphia. A brief account of the labor market experiences of inactive…

"The crises of suburban development, inner-city industrial movement, shopping centers, suburban executive offices, decline of mass transit, New Towns and 'no growth' policy all received a good deal of their impetus from the interstate highway system. The decline of the urban school system can be dated to the start of the interstate highway…

This report summarizes a hearing to examine the factors contributing to pressures on United States workers and to suggest government, industry, and labor policies. Section I is an introduction. Section II identifies the panelists: Director, Conservation of Human Resources, Columbia University; President, United Steel Workers of America; Senior…

This annual report details projects and activities undertaken during the period from July 1, 1987 to June 30, 1988. Part I presents findings and recommendations from the National Commission for Employment Policy's work on U.S. employment in an international economy, patterns of participation in Job Partnership Training Act (JTPA) programs, and…

In October 1984, unacceptably high levels of unemployment persisted in many regions of the United States. Figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveal that nearly 8.5 million Americans, or 7.4 percent of the civilian labor force, are still without work. When the 5.5 million Americans working part-time because of economic reasons, as…

This congressional hearing evaluates at the grassroots level the administration and effectiveness of laws enacted by Congress to assist veterans in obtaining job training and employment. Particular emphasis is placed on the implementation of the Emergency Veterans' Job Training Act of 1983, Public Law 98-77. Testimony includes statements from a…

These hearings on Senate bill 418 (Displaced Homemakers Act, 1977) explore the problems or barriers confronting women (primarily middle-aged) who are seeking to reenter the labor force or enter it for the first time and ways that existing or new Federal programs can more adequately serve the needs of these women. The first of several witnesses…

This first interim report of the National Commission for Manpower Policy on the manpower challenges of 1975 was developed to (1) assess the extent to which federal manpower and manpower-related programs provide a structure capable of responding to the current unemployment problems and (2) consider some of the long-run critical manpower issues that…

These hearings focus on various measures submitted by President Carter and Congress to reduce unemployment, including an extension of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1977, and the President's economic stimulus proposals. Some of the primary testimony presented regarding the need…

Proposed federal public employee bargaining legislation raises the issue of preemption. To what extent, if any, would and/or should federal legislation providing bargaining rights for state and local public employees preempt state legislation on terms and conditions of employment? The purpose of this analysis is to illustrate the importance of the…

Each summer more than 18,000 migrant farmworkers and their families travel to Indiana from Texas, Florida, Missouri, and Arkansas to plant, cultivate, and harvest the State's crops. Of these, more than 80 percent are Mexican Americans from Texas. These migrants work in 43 counties, primarily in the State's central region. The migrant population…