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TITLE 29—LABOR

Chap. Sec.

1. Labor Statistics ................................... 1

2. Women’s Bureau .................................. 11

2A. Children’s Bureau [Transferred] .... 18

3. National Trade Unions [Repealed] 21

4. Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons Injured in Industry [Repealed or Omitted] .......................... 31

4A. Employment Stabilization [Omitted

or Repealed] ...................................... 48

4B. Federal Employment Service ........... 49

4C. Apprentice Labor ................................ 50

5. Labor Disputes; Mediation and Injunctive Relief .................................. 51

6. Jurisdiction of Courts in Matters

Affecting Employer and Employee .................................................. 101

7. Labor-Management Relations .......... 141

8. Fair Labor Standards ........................ 201

9. Portal-to-Portal Pay ........................... 251

10. Disclosure of Welfare and Pension

Plans [Repealed] .............................. 301

11. Labor-Management Reporting and

Disclosure Procedure ..................... 401

12. Department of Labor .......................... 551

13. Exemplary Rehabilitation Certificates [Repealed] ............................... 601

14. Age Discrimination in Employment 621

15. Occupational Safety and Health ..... 651

16. Vocational Rehabilitation and

Other Rehabilitation Services ..... 701

17. Comprehensive Employment and

Training Programs [Repealed] .... 801

18. Employee Retirement Income Security Program ................................. 1001

19. Job Training Partnership ................. 1501

20. Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural

Worker Protection ........................... 1801

21. Helen Keller National Center for

Youths and Adults Who Are DeafBlind ................................................... 1901

22. Employee Polygraph Protection ..... 2001

23. Worker Adjustment and Retraining

Notification ....................................... 2101

24. Technology Related Assistance for

Individuals With Disabilities ........ 2201

25. Displaced Homemakers Self-Sufficiency Assistance ............................. 2301

26. National Center for the Workplace 2401

27. Women in Apprenticeship and

Nontraditional Occupations ......... 2501

28. Family and Medical Leave ................ 2601

29. Workers Technology Skill Development .................................................... 2701

CHAPTER 1—LABOR STATISTICS

SUBCHAPTER I—BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

Sec.

1. Design and duties of bureau generally.

Sec.

2. Collection, collation, and reports of labor statistics.

2a. Omitted.

2b. Studies of productivity and labor costs in industries.

3. Commissioner; appointment and tenure of office; compensation.

4. Duties of Commissioner in general.

5. Bulletin as to labor conditions.

6. Annual and special reports to President and

Congress.

7. Repealed.

8. Unemployment data relating to Americans of

Spanish origin or descent.

SUBCHAPTER II—SPECIAL STATISTICS

9. Authorization of special studies, compilations, and transcripts on request; cost.

9a. Credit of receipts.

9b. Rules and regulations.

SUBCHAPTER I—BUREAU OF LABOR

STATISTICS

§ 1. Design and duties of bureau generally

The general design and duties of the Bureau of

Labor Statistics shall be to acquire and diffuse

among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in

the most general and comprehensive sense of

that word, and especially upon its relation to

capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and

moral prosperity.

(June 13, 1888, ch. 389, §1, 25 Stat. 182; Feb. 14,

1903, ch. 552, §4, 32 Stat. 826; Mar. 18, 1904, ch. 716,

33 Stat. 136; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, §3, 37 Stat. 737.)

CODIFICATION

Act June 27, 1884, created Bureau of Labor in Department of the Interior.

Section 1 of act June 13, 1888, created Department of

Labor and outlined its general design and duties, and

section 9 of that act transferred Bureau of Labor to Department of Labor.

Act Feb. 14, 1903, placed Department of Labor under

jurisdiction and made it a part of Department of Commerce and Labor.

Act Mar. 18, 1904, changed name of Department of

Labor to Bureau of Labor in Department of Commerce

and Labor.

Act Mar. 4, 1913, created Department of Labor and

transferred Bureau of Labor from Department of Commerce and Labor to newly created Department of

Labor, redesignating such transferred Bureau as Bureau of Labor Statistics.

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees,

and agencies of Department of Labor, with certain ex-
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ceptions, to Secretary of Labor, with power to delegate,

see Reorg. Plan No. 6 of 1950, §§1, 2, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat.

1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

§ 2. Collection, collation, and reports of labor statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, shall collect,

collate, and report at least once each year, or

oftener if necessary, full and complete statistics

of the conditions of labor and the products and

distribution of the products of the same, and to

this end said Secretary shall have power to employ any or either of the bureaus provided for

his department and to rearrange such statistical

work, and to distribute or consolidate the same

as may be deemed desirable in the public interests; and said Secretary shall also have authority to call upon other departments of the Government for statistical data and results obtained by them; and said Secretary of Labor

may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as

to him may seem wise.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall also collect, collate, report, and publish at least once

each month full and complete statistics of the

volume of and changes in employment, as indicated by the number of persons employed, the

total wages paid, and the total hours of employment, in the service of the Federal Government,

the States and political subdivisions thereof,

and in the following industries and their principal branches: (1) Manufacturing; (2) mining,

quarrying, and crude petroleum production; (3)

building construction; (4) agriculture and lumbering; (5) transportation, communication, and

other public utilities; (6) the retail and wholesale trades; and such other industries as the Secretary of Labor may deem it in the public interest to include. Such statistics shall be reported

for all such industries and their principal

branches throughout the United States and also

by States and/or Federal reserve districts and by

such smaller geographical subdivisions as the

said Secretary may from time to time prescribe.

The said Secretary is authorized to arrange with

any Federal, State, or municipal bureau or

other governmental agency for the collection of

such statistics in such manner as he may deem

satisfactory, and may assign special agents of

the Department of Labor to any such bureau or

agency to assist in such collection.

(Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, §4, 37 Stat. 737; July 7, 1930,

ch. 873, 46 Stat. 1019.)

AMENDMENTS

1930—Act July 7, 1930, inserted second par.

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees,

and agencies of Department of Labor, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Labor, with power to delegate,

see Reorg. Plan No. 6 of 1950, §§1, 2, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat.

1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

CENSUS DATA ON WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES; STUDY

AND REPORT

For provisions requiring Bureaus of Labor Statistics

and the Census to include certain data on womenowned businesses in census reports, and requiring a

study and report on the most cost effective and accurate means to gather and present such data, see section

501 of Pub. L. 100–533, set out as a note under section 131

of Title 13, Census.

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR OLDER AMERICANS

Pub. L. 100–175, title I, §191, Nov. 29, 1987, 101 Stat.

967, provided that: ‘‘The Secretary of Labor shall,

through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, develop, from

existing data sources, a reweighted index of consumer

prices which reflects the expenditures for consumption

by Americans 62 years of age and older. The Secretary

shall furnish to the Congress the index within 180 days

after the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 29, 1987].

The Secretary shall include with the index furnished a

report which explains the characteristics of the reweighted index, the research necessary to develop and

measure accurately the rate of inflation affecting such

Americans, and provides estimates of time and cost required for additional activities necessary to carry out

the objectives of this section.’’

PRISON STATISTICS REPORT

Joint Res. June 17, 1940, ch. 389, 54 Stat. 401, authorized Bureau of Labor Statistics to furnish a report to

Congress before May 1, 1941, on kind, amount, and value

of all goods produced in State and Federal prisons.

CROSS REFERENCES

Transfer of duties as to ascertaining cost of production in foreign countries, etc., see Codification note set

out under section 4 of this title.

§ 2a. Omitted

CODIFICATION

Section, act Feb. 24, 1927, ch. 189, title IV, 44 Stat.

1222, which related to collection of statistical reports

through local special agents, was from an appropriations act for the Departments of State, Justice, the Judiciary, and Departments of Commerce and Labor for

the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and was not repeated in subsequent appropriation acts.

§ 2b. Studies of productivity and labor costs in

industries

The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United

States Department of Labor is authorized and

directed to make continuing studies of productivity and labor costs in the manufacturing,

mining, transportation, distribution, and other

industries.

(June 7, 1940, ch. 267, 54 Stat. 249; Aug. 30, 1954,

ch. 1076, §1(27), 68 Stat. 968.)

CODIFICATION

Provision of this section authorizing appropriations

of up to $100,000 for studies by the bureau in the first

fiscal year was omitted.

AMENDMENTS

1954—Act Aug. 30, 1954, repealed second par. which required Secretary of Labor to submit annually to Congress reports of findings under this section.

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees,

and agencies of Department of Labor, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Labor, with power to delegate,

see Reorg. Plan No. 6 of 1950, §§1, 2, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat.

1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

§ 3. Commissioner; appointment and tenure of office; compensation

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall be under

the charge of a Commissioner of Labor Statis-