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 92 STAT. 1902

PUBLIC LAW 95-523—OCT. 27, 1978 J O B T R A I N I N G, COUNSELING AND IlESERVOIRS OF EMPLOYMENT PROJECTS

Policies, procedures and recommendations. 15 USC 3116. 15 USC 1021 note.

Post, p. 1930.

Project reservoirs, establishment.

Ante, pp. 1892, 1893.

SEC. 206. (a) Further to promote achievement of full employment under this Act and the Employment Act of 1946, the President, through the Secretary of Labor, shall develop policies and procedures and, as necessary, recommend programs for providing employment opportunities to individuals aged 16 and over in the civilian labor force who are able, willing, and seeking to work but who, despite serious efforts to obtain employment, remain imemployed. (b) In meeting the responsibilities under subsection (a), the Secretary of Labor shall, as appropriate, fully utilize the authority provided under CETA and other relevant provisions of law to— (1) assure the availability of counseling, training, and other support activities necessary to prepare persons willing and seeking work for employment (including use of section 110 of CETA when necessary); (2) refer persons able, willing, and seeking to work to job opportunities in the private and public sectors through the existing public employment placement facilities and through the United States Employment Service of the Department of Labor, including job opportunities in any positions created under programs established pursuant to sections 202, 204, and 205 of this Act; and (3) encourage flexi-time and part-time jobs for persons who are able, willing, and seeking employment but who are unable to work a standard workweek. (c)(1) To the extent that individuals aged sixteen and over and able, willing, and seeking to work are not and in the judgment of the President cannot be provided with private job opportunities or job opportunities under other programs and actions in existence, in accord with the goals and timetables set forth in the Employment Act of 1946, the President shall, as may be authorized by law, establish reservoirs of public employment and private nonprofit employment projects, to be approved by the Secretary of Labor, through expansion of CETA and other existing employment and training projects or through such new programs as are determined necessary by the President or through both such projects and such programs. (2) New programs as may be authorized by law after the date of enactment of this Act referred to in paragraph (c)(1) — (A) shall not be put into operation earlier than two years after the enactment of this Act, nor without a finding by the President, transmitted to the Congress, that other means of employment are not yielding enough jobs to be consistent with attainment of the goals and timetables for the reduction of unemployment set forth in the Employment Act of 1946; ( (B) shall be designed so that no workers from private employment are drawn into the reservoir projects thereunder; (C) shall be useful and productive jobs; (D) shall be mainly in the lower ranges of skills and pay, and toward this end the number of reservoir jobs under such new programs shall, to the extent practicable, he maximized in relationship to the appropriations provided for such jobs; (E) shall be targeted on areas of high unemployment and on individuals who are structurally unemployed; (F) shall be phased in by the President as necessary, in conjunction with the employment goals under sections 3(a)(2) and 4 (b) of the Employment Act of 1946.

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