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Job Openings and Labor Turnover Report U.S. Department of Labor 

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BLS Form No. BLS-1411-C3

OMB No. 1220-0170

1 This form requests information about job openings and employee turnover at:

 COUNTY: 

 

 UI: in

2 Please check all that apply: Employees are paid

 each week every two weeks twice a month once a month other

3 Please provide data for the time period indicated for each item. Enter “0” if none. Enter “NA” if data 

are not available. See the back of this page for explanations of the terms below.

EMPLOYMENT JOB OPENINGS HIRES SEPARATIONS 

Number of: 

• Faculty under 

contract, and

• All other full- or 

part-time 

employees who 

worked or received 

pay for the pay 

period that includes 

the 12th of the 

month

A job is open if it 

meets all three

conditions:

• A specific position 

exists

• Work could start 

within 30 days

• You are actively 

seeking workers from 

outside this location to 

fill the position

A hire is any addition 

to your payroll, and:

• May be a new hire 

or a previously 

separated rehire

• May be permanent, 

short-term, or 

seasonal

• May be a recall 

from layoff

Quits 

(Except

retirements)

Layoffs and 

Discharges

• Layoffs

•Discharges

• Terminations 

of permanent, 

short-term, or 

seasonal 

employees

Other 

•Retirements

•Transfers 

from this 

location

•Employee 

disability 

•Deaths

A B C D E F

Report for 

month of:

Total Employment

for the pay period

that includes the 

12th of the month

Number of 

Job Openings

on the last business 

day of the month

Hires and Recalls

for the entire

month

Quits

Layoffs and 

Discharges

Other 

Separations

- - - - - - for the entire month - - - - -

Your reporting number is: 

Need help with this form?

Call 1-800-341-4620.
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IMPORTANT

This form requests information about employees on your payroll at the location shown in Section 1 on the 

front of this page. Please follow these instructions as you prepare your information.

Column A

Total Employment

for the pay period that includes the 12th of the month.

Report all faculty under contract, and all other persons on your 

payroll who worked or received pay for the pay period that 

includes the 12th of the month. 

INCLUDE:

• Full-time and part-time employees

• Salaried and hourly workers

• Faculty under contract, regardless of whether they receive 

pay when school is out

• Teachers on paid sabbaticals

• Employees on paid vacation or other paid leave

• Substitute teachers who worked during the pay period 

(except substitutes paid as individual contractors)

DO NOT INCLUDE:

• Employees on strike for the entire pay period

• Non-teaching employees who did not work or receive pay for 

the entire pay period

• Employees of temporary help agencies, employee leasing 

companies, outside contractors, or consultants. (These 

employees will be counted by their employer of record.)

Column B

Job Openings

on the last business day of the month. 

Report all positions that are open (not filled) on the last 

business day of the month. A job is open only if it meets

all three of these conditions:

• A specific position exists and there is work available for 

that position. The position can be full-time or part-time, 

and it can be permanent, short-term, or seasonal, and 

• The job could start within 30 days, whether or not you find

a suitable candidate during that time, and

• You are actively recruiting workers from outside the 

location shown in Section 1 on the front of this page

What is active recruiting? Active recruiting means your 

establishment is taking steps to fill a position. It may 

include advertising in newspapers, on television, or on 

radio; posting Internet notices; posting "help wanted" 

signs; networking or making "word of mouth" 

announcements; accepting applications; interviewing 

candidates; contacting employment agencies; or soliciting 

employees at job fairs, state or local employment offices, 

or similar sources.

DO NOT INCLUDE:

• Positions open only to internal transfers, promotions or 

demotions, or recall from layoffs

• Openings for positions with start dates more than 30 days 

in the future

• Positions for which employees have been hired, but the 

employees have not yet reported for work

• Positions to be filled by employees of temporary help 

agencies, employee leasing companies, outside 

contractors, or consultants

Column C

Hires and Recalls

for the entire month.

Report all additions to your payroll during the month.

INCLUDE:

• Newly hired teachers, administrators, and other workers

• Newly hired substitute teachers

• Full-time and part-time employees

• Permanent, short-term, and seasonal employees

• Employees who were recalled to a job at this location 

following a layoff (formal suspension from pay status) 

lasting more than 7 days

• On-call or intermittent employees who returned to work 

after having been formally separated

• Workers who were hired and separated during the month

DO NOT INCLUDE:

• Employees returning from summer vacation, unless they 

had been formally separated

• Substitute teachers returning during the same school year

• Employees returning from strike

• Employees of temporary help agencies, employee leasing 

companies, outside contractors, or consultants

Columns D, E, and F

Separations

for the entire month.

Report all separations from your payroll during the month. 

Report by type of separation.

• Column D, Quits: Employees who left voluntarily. 

Exception: Report retirements or transfers to other 

locations with Other Separations in Column F.

• Column E, Layoffs and Discharges: Involuntary 

separations initiated by the employer, including:

- Layoffs with no intent to rehire

- Layoffs (formal suspensions from pay status) lasting or 

expected to last more than 7 days. (If the employee was 

later recalled, also include in the Hires column.)

- Discharges because positions were eliminated

- Discharges resulting from mergers or closings

- Firings or other discharges for cause

- Terminations of permanent or short-term employees

- Terminations of seasonal employees (whether or not 

they are expected to return next season)

• Column F, Other Separations: Retirements; transfers to 

other locations; separations due to employee disability; 

deaths.

DO NOT INCLUDE:

• Transfers within this location

• Employees on strike

• Substitute teachers who are between assignments

• Employees of temporary help agencies, employee leasing 

companies, outside contractors, or consultants

We estimate it will take an average of 10 minutes to complete this form each month, including time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data 

needed, and completing and reviewing this information. If you have any comments regarding these estimates or any other aspect of this survey, send them to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 

2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 4840, Washington, DC 20212. You are not required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.