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 89 STAT. 734

PUBLIC LAW 94-136—NOV. 28, 1975 (12) there is a national need to identify and encourage the development of social, economic, scientific, business, labor, and governmental contributions to improve productivity growth, and increased economic effectiveness in the public and private sectors of the United States; which objectives can best be accomplished through maximizing private sector and State and local development of such contributions; (13) there is a national need to identify, study, and revise or eliminate the laws, regulations, policies, and procedures which adversely affect productivity growth and the efficient functioning of the economy; (14) there is a national need to increase employment security through such activities as manpower planning, skill-training and retraining of workers, internal work force adjustments to avoid worker displacement, assistance to workers facing or experiencing displacement, and all other public and private programs which seek to minimize the human costs of productivity improvement, thereby diminishing resistance to workplace change and improving productivity growth; (15) there is a national need to develop new technologies for the more effective production of goods and services; (16) there is a national need to encourage and support efforts by qualified institutions of higher learning to identify and inaugurate programs which will improve productivity; (17) there is a national need to develop precise, standardized measurements of productivity; and (18) there is a national need to gather and disseminate information about methods and techniques to improve productivity. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

15 USC 2402.

SEC. 102. It is the purpose of this Act— (1) to establish a national policy which will encourage productivity growth consistent with needs of the economy, the natural environment, and the needs, rights, and best interests of management, the work force, and consumers; and (2) to establish as an independent establishment of the executive branch a National Center for Productivity and Quality of "Working Life to focus, coordinate, and promote efforts to improve the rate of productivity growth. POLICY

14 USC 2403.

SEC. 103. (a) The Congress, recognizing the profound impact of productivity on the interrelations of all components of the national economy, declares that it is the continuing policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, to stimulate a high rate of productivity growth. (b) It is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means to improve and coordinate Federal plans, functions, programs, and resources to carry out the policy set forth in this Act. (c) The laws, rules, regulations, and policies of the United States shall be so interpreted as to give full force and effect to this policy.

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