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Federal Agencies not under Civil Service nor required to hire status personnel will also be contacted in the same manner, and their use of E. S. facilities encouraged. A letter over the signature of the Secretary of Labor is being sent to these agencies asking their cooperation in furthering the reinstatement and reemployment of Federal workers by making their job openings available to the E. S. offices. A list of such agencies will be furnished.

1. Order Taking.-The same standards for order-taking will apply to Federal agencies as apply to other employing establishments. (See Administrative Memorandum No. 23, Placement Process No. 10, Rev., 7/21/54). Care should be taken to assure that orders represent actual openings rather than the number of undetermined future needs.

2. Registration.-Federal employees separated from their jobs and filing for U. C. F. E. will register for work and will be classified occupationally as provided for under Part I. Registration, Page 1, of Administrative Memorandum No. 27, Rev., Placement Process No. 12, Rev., 9/23/53.

Federal employees separated after December 31, 1954, will have been advised to take both a notice of Separated Federal Employee, Standard Form 8, and a notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (or its equivalent), to the local Employment Service Office when they wish to file a claim for unemployment compensation.

3. Selection and Referral.—Every effort must be made to review the qualifications of applicants for available job openings in order to get the right or most suitable qualified worker to the right job in order to contribute toward a decrease in unemployment and duration of claims. See Administrative Memorandum No. 32, Placement Process No. 17.

4. Employment Counseling.-Assistance will be given through employment counseling to former Federal employees faced with job adjustment problems or the necessity of choosing new vocations. Such will include explaining job possibilities, job requirements, and retraining possibilities as well as an evaluation of the use of an applicant's skills and experiences in different occupations and industries.

5. Selective Placement.-Necessary assistance will be given to former Federal employees requiring this service thru the application of the Selective Placement techniques.

6. Aptitudes or Proficiency Tests.-In addition to the aid provided thru counseling or selective placement, the testing facilities will be used when necessary to help in placing U. C. F. E. claimants. The G. A. T. B. will be found to be one of the best means of judging an applicant's potentialities for success in a variety of occupations and of discriminating among alternative fields of work.

7. Procedures to be followed in Carrying Out Activities Relating to Claimants.— In addition to the above, generally the procedures pertaining to the handling of activities relating to claimants will also apply to claims filed under Title XV of the Social Security Act. See Administrative Memorandum No. 27 Rev., Placement Process No. 12, Rev.

8. Reporting of New Applications and Placements of Federal Workers.-Tentative plans call for the statistical reporting on Form ES-209 and 212 of new applications and placements by industry group of Federal workers. Appropriate instructions will be issued in the near future as a part of the local office reporting procedures.

To: All Personnel.

JANUARY 18, 1955.

From: Fred Z. Hetzel, Director, USES for the District of Columbia.
Subject: Placing of Recruitment Orders by Federal Agencies with the Employ-

ment Service.

Administrative Memorandum No. 27 Rev., Placement Process No. 12 Rev., Supplement No. 3, November 15, 1954, concerning Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees and with Strengthening Relations With Federal Agencies To Provide Maximum Placement Assistance to Separated Federal Employees, stated that instructions would be issued by the Civil Service Commission in the Federal Personnel Manual requiring Federal agencies to place orders with the Employment Service when recruiting workers in the absence of eligibles from civil service lists.

In accordance with its arrangement with the Bureau, the United States Civil Service Commission issued the following statement in its Federal Personnel Manual Sheet No. 484: "The State Employment Services are responsible for placement assistance to persons receiving unemployment compensation. In order

that former Federal employees may be given appropriate consideration for Federal vacancies, agencies will be required to place job orders with the Employment Service when engaging in positive recruiting under authority to appoint outside civil-service registers. Agencies are urged to cooperate with the Employment Services in filling positions excepted from the Civil Service and in considering noncompetitively former employees eligible for reinstatement to positions in the competitive service."

The following instructions (p. X-1-17 of the Federal Personnel Manual) covering recruiting methods have been issued by the United States Civil Service Commission to Federal agencies. They are effective as of January 1, 1955. "Recruiting methods-Recruiting sources.—Agencies are urged to make full use of Employment Service facilities. When it is necessary to make positive efforts to recruit (i. e., seek out applicants through publicity or personal contacts), an order must be placed with the Employment Service Office in the area where the vacancy exists and with the Employment Service in any other areas where recruiting is undertaken. Agencies make their own contacts with the Employment Service and other appropriate recruiting sources such as veterans' organizations, colleges, universities, business schools, and trade and professional organizations."

This supplemental information is to be attached to the local office instruction referred to in the first paragraph above.

FEBRUARY 1, 1955.

To: All Personnel.

From: Fred Z. Hetzel, Director, USES for the District of Columbia.
Subject: Renewal of Application Cards-Claimant and Nonclaimant.

Effective Monday, February 7, 1955, I cards for current claimants will be renewed every fourth week or after a lag in benefit payments or in such other isolated cases as may be deemed necessary by the Unemployment Compensation Board, as originally provided for in Part II, Page 3, of Administrative Memorandum No. 27, Rev., Placement Process No. 12, Rev., September 23, 1953.

Paragraphs 1 and 2 under III Renewal should be revised to include F Street applicant-claimant I cards. For purposes of paragraph 2 the F Street office should be identified as No. 4. Also, in paragraph 4 the 30-day period will again apply.

In the event an office desires to establish a validity period beyond 60 days, claimant or nonclaimant application cards, the administrative office will be notified prior to its becoming effective.

To: Managers.

From: Fred Z. Hetzel.

AUGUST 16, 1955.

Subject: Administrative Memorandum No. 27 Rev.; Placement Process No. 12 Rev.; Procedures to be Followed in Carrying out; Activities Relating to Claimants.

With reference to the memorandum of August 10, 1955, on the above subject, Section 5408, Part V, E. S. Manual, states in part:

"The work application of the claimant must be retained in the active subsection of the application file as long as he is filing for benefits. Arrangements should be made in each office to identify the application cards of claimants and to insure the renewal or extention of a claimant's application when the validity period has expired."

Section 5011, Part V, also states in part:

"The placement staff is required to retain in the active file the applications for work of claimants during all periods in which the claims of such claimants are in active status, and to use such active file in selecting applicants for referral to job openings with employers."

Local offices must assure that applications of claimants remain in the active file during the period of filing for benefits.

The following circumstances will be considered as evidence of a claimant's not currently filing for benefits and application cards will be removed to the inactive section of the file until such time as he may reappear and renew the card: 1. Paid claim notice from D. U. C. B.

2. Denied claim notice from D. U. C. B.

3. Verification of Placement by E. S. staff as result of local office referral. 4. Information from applicant to the effect that he has located employment as a result of his own efforts and is employed.

5. Call-in notice retured, "Moved, left no address."

D. U. C. B.'s will be issued to cover items 3, 4, and 5. Otherwise, the following validity periods for the active file will apply:

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In accordance with current instructions, "I" cards for current claimants will be stamped every fourth week or after a lag in benefits or in such other isolated cases as may be deemed necessary by the Unemployment Compensation Board. The subject memorandum will be revised accordingly in the near future and reissued to all personnel.

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Mr. MCNAMARA, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 1835]

The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 1835) to amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act, as amended, after full consideration, report favorably thereon with amendments, and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.

The amendments are as follows:

Page 1, strike lines 3 to 9, inclusive, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

That (a) section 7 (b) of the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act, approved August 28, 1935 (49 Stat. 946), as amended (title 46, ch. 3, D. C. Code, 1951 edition; 68 Stat. 993), is amended to read as follows:

Page 3, redesignate subsections (c), (d), and (e) as (b), (c), and (d), respectively.

Page 3, strike lines 5 to 11, inclusive, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

(c) To qualify for benefits an individual must have (1) been paid wages for employment of not less than $130 in one quarter in his base period, (2) been paid wages for employment in not less than two quarters in such period, and (3) earned during such period wages the total amount of which is equal to at least one and one-half times the amount of his wages for the quarter in such period in which his wages were the highest. Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (3), any otherwise qualified individual the total amount of whose wages during such period is less than the amount required to have been earned during such period under such clause may qualify for benefits if the difference between the amount so required to have been earned and the total amount of his wages during such period does not exceed $70, but the amount of his weekly benefit, as computed under section 7 (b), shall be reduced by $1 if such difference does not exceed $35 or by $2 if such difference is more than $35.

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Page 5, line 4, strike "1955." and insert in lieu thereof the following: 1955, and the benefit rights of any individual having a benefit year current on or after the effective date shall be redetermined and benefits for calendar weeks ending subsequent to the effective date shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act as amended by this Act: Provided, That no claimant shall have his benefits reduced or denied by redetermination resulting from the application of this provision. All initial and continued claims for benefits for weeks occurring within a benefit year which commences on or after the effective date shall be computed and paid in accordance with the provisions of the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act as amended by this Act.

INTRODUCTION

The Public Health, Education, Welfare, and Safety Subcommittee of your committee considered two proposals, S. 1163 and S. 1835, the former being sponsored by Senator Beall, Senator Mansfield, Senator Neely, and Senator Payne, and the latter sponsored by Senator Morse, Senator Beall, Senator Case (New Jersey), Senator Mansfield, Senator McNamara, Senator Neely, and Senator Payne. The list of sponsors of S. 1835 included all the sponsors of S. 1163, and demonstrated the bipartisan support for the changes that this legislation would make.

Hearings were held on both bills on April 28 and May 4, 1955. Although the original notice of hearings referred only to S. 1163, all witnesses were given adequate opportunity to study the provisions of S. 1835 before being asked to testify. The record was held open for any written statements which witnesses might want to file.

PURPOSE AND SCOPE

S. 1835 provides for three urgently needed changes in the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act:

(1) Increases the maximum weekly benefit amount.

(2) Changes the duration period for all eligible claimants to a uniform maximum period of 26 weeks.

(3) Changes the disqualification provisions to a straight 6-week disqualification with no cancellation of benefits.

The proposed changes with respect to duration of benefits, the disqualification period and the qualifying wage requirement are contained in both bills. It is believed that these changes and the additional amendments contained in S. 1835, which deal with the maximum weekly benefit amount require immediate attention. These proposals are all within the areas which were studied by your committee prior to the 1954 amendments to the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act, and thus do not require prolonged consideration now. These proposed changes have been selected for consideration at this time because of their urgency.

MAXIMUM WEEKLY BENEFIT AMOUNT

The rapid rise in wages since the enactment of the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act makes immediate benefit adjustments imperative if the District of Columbia Act is to provide benefits reasonably related to the present wage levels.

In 1938 when unemployment insurance benefits were first paid in the District of Columbia the maximum weekly benefit amount was $15 a week. This was three-fifths of the average weekly wage in

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