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From: Hoyle_K
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 1997 5:25 PM
To: DailyReport
Subject: BLS Daily Report
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1997
The inflation adjusted median weekly earnings of the 95.8 million
full-time wage and salary workers were 0.2 percent higher in the third
quarter of 1997, compared with one year earlier, BLS reports. Median
weekly earnings rose 2.3 percent to $499 in the third quarter, compared
with the third quarter 1996. In the same time period, the CPI-U gained
2.1 percent. The BLS data indicate the gender gap in wages continued.
Women who usually worked full time had median earnings of $429 a week,
or 74.9 percent of the $573 median for men ....(Daily Labor Report, page
D-1).
U.S. companies have slowed their pace of workforce reductions and have
shifted the nature of those layoffs in recent months, according to an
American Management Association survey. The survey showed the lowest
levels so far this decade in job elimination and downsizing. Downsizing
is defined by the group as a net decrease in the workforce. Most U.S.
firms have adopted a mode of "constant tinkering" with their workforces,
with cuts in some types of jobs occurring at the same time that other
jobs are being created .... (Daily Labor Report, page A-12).
Minority women are underrepresented in the upper ranks of corporate
America, and those who have made it to the top are paid less than their
white male counterparts, a report by Catalyst, a New York research
organization that works to advance women in the workplace, says. Asian,
Hispanic, and African American women account for 10 percent of the total
U.S. work force, but they hold only 5.6 percent of management jobs in
the private sector. This leaves them worse off than white women, who
account for about 33 percent of the 7.5 million U.S. managerial
positions. The study was based on an analysis of Census Bureau data for
1994-95 ....(Washington Post, page C6).
A federal judge held that the head of the National Archives ignored his
duties and acted illegally in issuing a regulation that authorizes all
government agencies to wipe out their electronic mail and other
computerized records regardless of content ....The two-year-old
regulation, known in bureaucratic jargon as "GRS [General Records
Schedule]-20," permitted all agencies, from the Executive Office of the
President on down, to destroy e-mail and word-processing records once
they have been copied on paper or some other format and deemed "no
longer needed for updating and revision." Historians, researchers, and
journalists represented by the nonprofit advocacy group Public Citizen
denounced the provision as an "electronic shredder" and filed suit,
accusing the National Archives head of abdicating his responsibilities
to appraise the value of the records on an agency-by-agency basis
.....(Washington Post, page A21).
The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee approved nominees to fill
four positions at the Labor Department: Charles Jeffress as assistant
secretary of labor for occupational safety and health; Al Borrego to
head the Veterans' Employment and Training Service; Patricia Lattimore
as assistant secretary for administration and management; and Susan King
as head of public affairs ....(Daily Labor Report, page A-2).
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