Labor - 29 USC Section 49

01/19/04

Sec. 49. United States Employment Service established

In order to promote the establishment and maintenance of a
national system of public employment offices, the United States
Employment Service shall be established and maintained within the
Department of Labor.

AMENDMENTS
1982 - Pub. L. 97-300 substituted "the United States Employment
Service shall be established and maintained within the Department
of Labor" for "there is created in the Department of Labor a bureau
to be known as the United States Employment Service".
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1982 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 97-300 effective Oct. 1, 1983, but with
Secretary authorized to use funds appropriated for fiscal 1983 to
plan for orderly implementation of amendment, see section 181(i) of
Pub. L. 97-300, which was formerly classified to section 1591(i) of
this title.
SHORT TITLE
Act June 6, 1933, ch. 49, Sec. 16, formerly Sec. 15, as added by
Pub. L. 97-300, title VI, Sec. 601(h), formerly title V, Sec.
501(h), Oct. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1397; renumbered title VI, Sec.
601(h), Pub. L. 100-628, title VII, Sec. 712(a)(1), (2), Nov. 7,
1988, 102 Stat. 3248; renumbered Sec. 16, Pub. L. 105-220, title
III, Sec. 309(1), Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1082, provided that:
"This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the
'Wagner-Peyser Act'."

ADMINISTRATION OF MANPOWER IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Pub. L. 93-198, title II, Sec. 204(a), Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat.
783, provided that: "All functions of the Secretary of Labor
(hereafter in this section referred to as the Secretary) under
section 3 of the Act [section 49b of this title] entitled 'An Act
to provide for the establishment of a national employment system
and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such
system, and for other purposes', approved June 6, 1933 (29 U.S.C.
49-49k), with respect to the maintenance of a public employment
service for the District [of Columbia], are transferred [effective
July 1, 1974] to the Commissioner [of the District of Columbia
established under Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967 (now the Mayor)]. After
the effective date of this transfer [July 1, 1974], the Secretary
shall maintain with the District the same relationship with respect
to a public employment service in the District, including the
financing of such service, as he has with the States (with respect
to a public employment service in the States) generally."
RECRUITMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF FARM LABOR
Act July 3, 1948, ch. 823, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 1238, authorized the
Federal Security Administrator to recruit foreign workers within
the Western Hemisphere and workers in Puerto Rico for temporary
agricultural employment in the continental United States and to
direct, supervise, coordinate, and provide for the transportation
of those workers from such places of recruitment to and between
places of employment within the continental United States and
return to the places of recruitment not later than June 30, 1949.
Section 2 of act July 3, 1948, appropriated $2,500,000, for
fiscal year ending June 30, 1949, to carry out the purposes of
section 1 of act July 3, 1948.
FARM PLACEMENT SERVICE
Act Apr. 28, 1947, ch. 43, Sec. 2, 61 Stat. 55, provided:
"(a) The provisions of the Farm Labor Supply Appropriation Act,
1944 (Public Law 229, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session,
title I [sections 1351 to 1355 of Appendix to Title 50, War and
National Defense]), as amended and supplemented, and as extended by
this Act, shall not be construed to limit or interfere with any of
the functions of the United States Employment Service or State
public employment services with respect to maintaining a farm
placement service as authorized under the Act of June 6, 1933 (48
Stat. 113) [this chapter].
"(b) The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Labor
shall take such action as may be necessary to assure maximum
cooperation between the agricultural extension services of the
land-grant colleges and the State public employment agencies in the
recruitment and placement of domestic farm labor and in the keeping
of such records and information with respect thereto as may be
necessary for the proper and efficient administration of the State
unemployment compensation laws and of title V of the Servicemen's
Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended (58 Stat. 295)."

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