[PEN-L:4525] BLS Daily Report

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BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1999

U.S. employers laid off 190,070 workers in 1,608 mass layoff actions in
December, BLS reports.  The total number of layoff events from January
through December 1998, at 15,647, was somewhat higher than in the prior year
(14,960), and the total number of initial claimants for unemployment
insurance benefits, at 1.7 million, was greater than 1997's 1.5 million. ...
(Daily Labor Report, page D-1).

President Clinton announced his intent to fill three top positions at the
Labor Department.  He will nominate T. Michael Kerr, currently deputy
assistant secretary of labor in ESA, to head the Wage and Hour Division. ...
Edward B. Montgomery will be named as assistant secretary of labor for
policy.  Currently a senior adviser to Secretary Herman, Montgomery served
as the Labor Department's chief economist from 1997 to January 1999.  Prior
to taking that post, he was an economics professor at the University of
Maryland. ...  The president intends to nominate Irasema Garza as director
of the Women's Bureau.  Garza currently is secretary of the U.S. National
Administrative Office, the agency responsible for monitoring the labor side
accord to NAFTA. ...  (Daily Labor Report, page A-16).


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