Word: hodgson
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Labor Secretary James Hodgson denies that the agreement represents the use of employment quotas, a practice that President Nixon says he rejects. Hodgson asserts that the Administration is merely setting "goals." For many businessmen, faced with relentless Government pressure to hire precise numbers of certain minority-group members, the distinction between goals and quotas is often difficult to discern...
...fire it." That derisive opinion of federal employees may now have to be changed. For the past year a Government task force has been conducting the first survey ever made of output per man-hour by Uncle Sam's hirelings. Last week Labor Secretary James Hodgson announced that the results were "a pleasant surprise": the bureaucrats in Foggy Bottom and environs have been getting bigger productivity increases out of their workers than have bosses in private industry. Between 1967 and 1971, the report showed, productivity in the Federal Government rose an average of 2% a year, v. an average...
...What is most important," says Hodgson, "is that we now have a new and useful yardstick to help us improve our performance." Altogether, some 600 standards were devised to gauge efficiency in such Government operations as the minting of coins, distribution of Social Security checks, processing of FHA mortgage applications and printing of federal documents. They cover slightly more than half of the 2.6 million employees in the federal work force. The rest, including NASA scientists, FBI agents and the Supreme Court Justices, perform jobs whose productivity is still unmeasurable...
Tokens and Bars. Women's protests are being heard in high places. Under threat of contract cancellation, corporations that do substantial business with the Federal Government have been ordered by Labor Secretary James Hodgson to draft personnel action plans by next month showing that they will take "affirmative action" to "remedy the underutilization" of their women employees. More and more, courts are ruling against laws or work rules that discriminate against women, including bans on laboring long hours and lifting heavy loads...
...part of a single agreement in the past and the combined total does not exceed the guideline. Some union pay increases-and those of nonunion employees that traditionally are granted at the same time-will doubtless continue to exceed the guideline for a while. Labor Secretary James Hodgson admitted as much last week by noting that the Administration fully expected to "swallow" a few extra large settlements early in Phase 11. These included the 15% pay boost granted coal miners in the first year of a new contract and a pact giving railroad signalmen a more than 16% raise, which...