Download full textERIC Number: ED275824
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986-Jul
Pages: 20
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Federal Personnel. Federal Agencies' Part-Time Employment Programs. Briefing Report to the Chairwoman, Task Force on Economic Security, Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, House of Representatives.
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC.
This report provides information on permanent part-time employment programs in the federal government. It contains statistical data showing general characteristics of the federal part-time work force and information about the part-time employment programs of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Veterans Administration, General Services Administration, Federal Trade Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, Export-Import Bank, Library of Congress, and Departments of Navy and Labor. A description of the Federal Employees Part-Time Career Employment Act of 1978 is followed by discussion of agencies' role under the Act and such topics as decrease in part-time employment, difficulties in filling part-time positions, characteristics of permanent part-time employees, and increase in middle and upper level white-collar positions. Agencies' implementation of part-time programs is addressed, and OPM's advice and assistance to agencies and research and demonstration projects are discussed. Three tables and two figures are provided. (YLB)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Career Education, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Part Time Employment, Program Implementation, Public Agencies
U.S. General Accounting Office, P.O. Box 6015, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 (First five copies free; additional copies--$2.00 each; 100 or more--25% discount).
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: General Accounting Office, Washington, DC.
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