ES roject was financed by grant No. 8025 from the conomic Opportunity and the Department of Labor. SYSTEM: A personnel system which includes an non-political method of selection and promotion, ons of tenure. E: Permanent status granted to an employee on of a specified probationary period of satisfactory ce. Employees with tenure are subject to removal ood and sufficient cause, curtailment of work, or ds. 4 Based on Bureau of Census statistics, October, 1969, showing employees in governmental functions other than education: states-1,501,000 employees, counties-901,926 employees, and cities-1,747,421 employees. Does not take into consideration the growth trend in state and local government employees which averaged nearly 5% between October 1962 and October 1967. (1967 Census of Governments, Volume 3, Bureau of Census.) UNEMPLOYMENT RATES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN EUROPE: INFORMATION FROM THE ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT 1Data begin with 1964, when the rate was 1.4 percent. Source: Prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from national International sources. Data are adjusted, insofar as possible, to -concept. March 1972. |