[PEN-L:3274] BLS Daily Report

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BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1999:
Today's News Release:  "Multifactor Productivity Trends, 1997:  Private
Business, Private Nonfarm Business, and Manufacturing" indicates that
multifactor productivity data -output per unit of combined labor and capital
inputs - changed over the period 1996-1997 (the most recent year available)
0.7 percent in private business and 0.4 percent in private nonfarm business.
Multifactor productivity differs from the labor productivity (output per
hour) measures that are published quarterly by BLS.  Multifactor
productivity, unlike labor productivity, requires information on capital
services and other data that are not available on a quarterly basis.
The number of work stoppages rose in 1998, but remained near the all time
low recorded in 1997.  Thirty-four major work stoppages began during 1998,
idling 387,000 employees and resulting in 5.1 million days of lost work.
This compares with the record low level of work stoppages in 1997, when 29
stoppages idled 339,000 workers for 4.5 million lost workdays (Daily Labor
Report, page D-1).
About 3.7 percent of federal employees fail to meet minimum performance
objectives.  Ten percent of these poor performers are supervisors, and the
average length of service for this group  is 14 years, an Office of
Personnel Management study shows.  The OPM study "Poor Performers in
Government:  A Quest for the True Study" was based on face-to-face
interviews with 200 supervisors who directly managed the work of 3,114
employees. The interviews took place in March and April of 1998 (Daily Labor
Report, page A-7).
Average hourly pay of production workers in the private business sector rose
in January to $13.04 from $12.98 the preceding month, the Labor Department
reports (The Wall Street Journal, page A1).


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