4. Department of Labor Description: STEP was established to provide short term work experience in the public and private nonprofit sectors of the economy. Participants in the program are disadvantaged unemployed workers who are not eligible for unemployment compensation. Emphasis has been on enrolling manpower program graduates who have not been placed in a permanent job or those OJT program participants who have been laid off before completing training. STEP is directed at areas of high unemployment which have been declared eligible for STEP funds by the Department of Labor. Since the Emergency Employment Act is designed for the same purpose, but on a larger scale, STEP will be phased out in FY 1972. 15. MIGRANT WORKER PROGRAM 1. Program: Migrant Worker Program 2. Authorizing Legislation: MDTA 3. Administering Agency: Department of Labor 4. Description: The primary goal of the National Migrant Manpower Training program is to equip migrant farmworkers with needed skills and training to aid them in seeking more remunerative employment than seasonal agricul ture. Objectives are for the ES to provide more effective services, to redirect farm labor services in order to eliminate any activities which indirectly result in economic disparity for the migrant population, to create linkages to conform to migrant patterns to assure the availability of manpower services to migrants and their families, and to provide skill training. Beginning in FY 1972 there will be about nine instream settleout programs in operation as well as three major home base projects and possibly a fouth home base project on a smaller scale. 5. FY 1971: (Implementation of the program began late in FY 1971) The program will be directed at Spanish-American and Black migrant workers. 1. 16. SPECIAL VETERANS EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM Program: Veteran's program 2. Authorizing Legislation: President's letter to the Secretary of Labor dated June 11, 1971; MDTA 3. Administering Agency: 4. 5. Department of Labor Description: This is an intensive effort to place unemployed Vietnam veterans in jobs or training and to establish procedures which will provide employment for veterans as the Vietnam war is phased down. In accordance with the Presi dent's mandate the Department of Labor is drawing upon the resources of the National Alliance of Businessmen to help mobilize the business community in response to this problem; working with the Secretary of Defense to expand the Transition program for returning servicemen; increasing the number of training opportunities open to returning servicemen; in accordance with Executive Order 11598, requiring the listing of all job openings with the U.S. Employment Service by all agencies and contractors funded by the Federal Government; increasing the effectiveness of the ES in finding and opening jobs and job training opportunities; providing special Labor/VA services to those who have been drawing unemployment compensation for three months or longer. FY 1971: The President's 6 point program for serving veterans got underway in FY 172, An earlier program to help increase job opportunities for veterans in FY 1971 was a promotional campaign called Jobs for Veterans. Obligations for this program were $251,000. These above characteristics are for recently separated veterans - those applying to the Employment Service 3 months or less after discharge. Data on characteristics of veterans participating in manpower programs is not, available. "Veteran" is one of the characteristics of individuals which 18 reported, but no cross tabulation is available. . 17. UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE 1. Program: EMPLOYMENT SERVICE 2. Authorizing Legislation: Wagner-Peyser Act 3. Administering Agency: Department of Labor 4. Description: The Federal-State Employment Service system is primarily concerned with finding jobs for workers, recruiting workers to fill job openings, providing specialized services to job applicants who encounter difficulties in the competitive job market, and cooperating with other government agencies and local groups to resolve manpower problems. 18. REHABILITATION SERVICES AND FACILITIES 1. Program: REHABILITATION SERVICES AND FACILITIES 2. Authorizing Legislation: Vocational Rehabilitation, Sections II, 3. Administering Agency: III, IV, XII, XIII, XV and XVII. OASI Department of Health, Education & Welfare, 4. Description: These programs assist States to rehabilitate the mentally and physically handicapped so that they may prepare for and engage in paid employment to the extent of their capability. |