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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 2401. Congressional findings
The Congress finds that -
(1) the rate of productivity growth in the United States has
declined during four of the past six years;
(2) the decline in the rate of productivity growth has
contributed to inflation, to economic stagnation, and to
increasing unemployment;
(3) since 1965, the rate of productivity growth of the United
States has been consistently lower than that of many industrial
nations in the world, adversely affecting the competitive
position of the United States in world markets;
(4) growth in productivity of the economy of the United States
is essential to the social and economic welfare of the American
people, and to the health of the world economy;
(5) growth in the productivity of the Nation's economy is
essential to maintain and increase employment, to stabilize the
cost of living and to provide job security;
(6) mounting worldwide material shortages and their consequent
inflationary results make increased efficiency in the utilization
of these resources of urgent importance;
(7) sharing the fruits of productivity gains among labor,
management, and owners may considerably influence productivity;
(8) the continued development of joint labor-management efforts
to provide a healthy environment for collective bargaining can
make a significant contribution to improve productivity and
foster industrial peace;
(9) factors affecting the growth of productivity in the economy
include not only the status of technology and the techniques of
management but also the role of the worker in the production
process and the conditions of his working life;
(10) there is a national need to identify and encourage
appropriate application of capital in sectors of American
economic activity in order to improve productivity;
(11) there is a national need to identify and encourage
appropriate application of technology in all sectors of American
economic activity in order to improve productivity;
(12) there is a national need to identify and encourage the
development of social, economic, scientific, business, labor, and
governmental contributions to improve productivity growth, and
increased economic effectiveness in the public and private
sectors of the United States; which objectives can best be
accomplished through maximizing private sector and State and
local development of such contributions;
(13) there is a national need to identify, study, and revise or
eliminate the laws, regulations, policies, and procedures which
adversely affect productivity growth and the efficient
functioning of the economy;
(14) there is a national need to increase employment security
through such activities as manpower planning, skill-training and
retraining of workers, internal work force adjustments to avoid
worker displacement, assistance to workers facing or experiencing
displacement, and all other public and private programs which
seek to minimize the human costs of productivity improvement,
thereby diminishing resistance to workplace change and improving
productivity growth;
(15) there is a national need to develop new technologies for
the more effective production of goods and services;
(16) there is a national need to encourage and support efforts
by qualified institutions of higher learning to identify and
inaugurate programs which will improve productivity;
(17) there is a national need to develop precise, standardized
measurements of productivity; and
(18) there is a national need to gather and disseminate
information about methods and techniques to improve productivity.
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