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...would openly confirm the rumors, however. Sub-cabinet appointments are only official when they have been announced, and HEW Secretary-designate Joseph A. Califano Jr. didn't mention his choice for under secretary in his confirmation hearing before the Senate yesterday...
...HEW's budget is larger than that of any other federal program, and Califano, a lawyer, is not a financial expert. Champion, a self-proclaimed liberal...
More confusion centered on Carter's plans for welfare reform. As a candidate, Carter flatly promised to improve the cumbersome system during his first year in office. Yet Joseph Califano, who is in line to become HEW Secretary, told correspondents that "it may be a while" before the changes could be achieved, and that they may depend upon the economy reviving enough to produce the taxes to finance the restructuring. Other developments...
Plans vary, but the basic idea is that employees can arrange their own work hours around a "core" time. At the Chicago HEW office, employees must be on the job between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.; but they can come in as early as 7, and stay as late as 5:30. Under some Flextime plans, workers choose a starting and a quitting time and have to stick to it. Under others they can, with their bosses' permission, come in at different times each day. Says Katy Westlund, a switchboard operator for Hewlett-Packard, which has adopted Flextime...
Imported Flexibility. Introduced in Germany in the late 1960s, Flextime was imported by U.S. multinationals that had first tried the idea in Europe. Some 70,000 Government employees, including HEW workers in Boston, Denver, Seattle and Chicago, are now on Flextime. Government officials estimate the plan has been adopted by 40 to 50 companies in the U.S., including such giants as Control Data (20,000 workers on Flextime) and Metropolitan Life...