99-30931. Labor Research Advisory Council; Notice of Meetings and Agenda

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 228 (Monday, November 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66665-66666]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30931]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Labor Statistics


Labor Research Advisory Council; Notice of Meetings and Agenda

    The Fall meetings of committees of the Labor Research Advisory 
Council will be held on December 7 and 8. The Committee on Occupational 
Safety and Health Statistics will not meet this Fall. All of the 
meetings will be held in Rooms 8/10 of the Conference Center, in the 
Postal Square Building (PSB), 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE., Washington, 
DC.
    The Labor Research Advisory Council and its committees advise the 
Bureau of Labor Statistics with respect to technical matters associated 
with the Bureau's programs. Membership consists of union research 
directors and staff members. The schedule and agenda of the meetings 
are as follows:

Tuesday, December 7, 1999

9:30 a.m.--Committee on Employment and Unemployment Statistics

    1. Current Employment Statistics (CES)--
    a. Impact of North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 
implementation on CES
    b. Discussion of time series breaks
    2. Current Population Survey (CPS)--
    a. Impact of new race/ethnic and industry and occupation 
classification on CPS
    b. Discussion of time series breaks
    3. Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey--
    a. Discussion of definitions for job openings, hires, and 
separations and availability of these data
    b. Discussion of upcoming Response Analysis Survey
    4. Mass Layoff Statistics--Discussion of program review
    5. Discussion of proposed metropolitan area standards
    6. Ideas for the agenda of the next meeting

1:30 p.m.--Committee on Compensation and Working Conditions

    1. Overview of union/non-union wage and benefit trends.
    2. Discussion of stock options data collection test.
    a. Phase 1 results.
    b. Plans for Phase 2 incidence collection.
    c. Types of data on options of interest to Committee members.
    3. Ideas for the agenda of the next meeting.

Wednesday, December 8, 1999

9:30 a.m.--Committee on Productivity, Technology and Growth/Office of 
Employment Projections

    1. New employment projections (Employment Outlook 1998-2008).
    2. Activities of the Division of International Technical 
Cooperation.
    3. Report on the new set of measures of unit labor costs.
    4. Ideas for the agenda of the next meeting.

Committee on Foreign Labor Statistics

    1. Report on compendium of comparative labor force statistics.
    2. Report on unemployment rate comparisons.
    3. Ideas for the agenda of the next meeting.

1:30 p.m.--Committee on Prices and Living Conditions

    1. Consumer Price Index.
    a. Quality adjustment and new goods.
    b. Report on Consumer Price Index (CPI) research series.
    2. International Prices--proposed program improvements.
    3. Producer Price Index (PPI).
    a. Effects on the PPI of deregulation in the utilities industries.
    b. Efforts to minimize new product bias in the PPI.
    4. Ideas for the agenda of the next meeting.
    The meeting are open to the public. Persons planning to attend 
these meetings as observers may want to contact Wilhelmina Abner on 
(Area Code 202) 691-5970.


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    Signed at Washington, DC this 22nd day of November, 1999.
Katharine G. Abraham,
Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 99-30931 Filed 11-26-99; 8:45 am]
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