Employment Service: More Jobseekers Should be Referred to Private Employment Agencies

摘要

The report examines implementation of section 13(b)(1) of the Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 49(1))and determine: whether additional actions might be taken to better ensure that private employment agency resources are appropriately utilized in federally funded efforts to reduce unemployment. The following topics were studied: How the public and private employment agencies operate; Private agency referrals generally have not occurred; Advantages of referring employment service jobseekers to private agencies; Barriers and approaches to increasing private agency referrals--summary of discussions with officials and experts; Advance comments from the department of labor and our evaluation; Memorandum from assistant secretary for employment and training dated March 13, 1986, with attachments; and discussion proposal from employers' national job service committee officials.