96-9821. Labor Research Advisory Council; Notice of Meetings and Agenda

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 78 (Monday, April 22, 1996)]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics


Labor Research Advisory Council; Notice of Meetings and Agenda

    The Spring meetings of committees of the Labor Research Advisory 
Council will be held on May 7, 8 and 9. All of the meetings will be 
held in the Conference Center of the Postal Square Building (PSB), 2 
Massachusetts Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C.
    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, May 7, 1996

9:30 a.m.--Committee on Prices and Living Conditions--Meeting Room 
3

1. Update on program developments
    a. Consumer Price Index
    b. Producer Price Indexes
2. Other business

1:30 p.m.--Committee on Employment and Unemployment Statistics--
Meeting Room 3

1. Welcome/Introductions
2. Budget situation update
3. Redesign of the Occupational Employment Statistics Survey
4. Redesign of the Mass Layoff Statistics Program
5. Contingent Workers-analysis and plans for next collection
6. North American Industry Classification System redesign proposal
7. Report on the 1995 Survey of Employer Provided Training

Wednesday, May 8, 1996

9:30 a.m.--Committee on Wages and Industrial Relations--Meeting 
Room 3

1. COMP2000 plans and progress
2. Plans for collective bargaining series
3. Compensation research
4. Other business

Thursday, May 9, 1996

9:30 a.m.--Committee of Occupational Safety & Health Statistics--
Meeting Room 3

1. Review of the worker demographic and case characteristic data 
from the 1994 Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
2. Injury and illness estimates based on multiple years data
3. FY 1996 budget and its program impact
4. INTERNET demo
5. Discussion of format for the 1994 Bulletin

1:30 p.m.--Committee on Productivity, Technology and Growth--
Meeting Room 3

1. Developments in the Office of Employment Projections
2. Report on recent developments in the Office of Productivity
3. Revisions of major sector labor productivity series: adoption of 
new output indexes
4. Trends in productivity in retail trade industries

2:30 p.m.--Committee on Foreign Labor Statistics--Meeting Room 3

1. International comparisons of hourly compensation of manufacturing 
production workers

    The meetings are open to the public. Persons planning to attend 
these meetings as observers may want to contact Wilhelmina Abner on 
(Area Code 202) 606-5970.

    Signed at Washington, D.C. this 12th day of April 1996.
Katharine G. Abraham,
Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 96-9821 Filed 4-19-96; 8:45 am]
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