[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 224 (Friday, November 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64527-64528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-31082]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Labor Statistics


Labor Research Advisory Council; Notice of Meetings and Agenda

    The Fall meetings of committees of the Labor Research Advisory 
Council will be held on December 8, 9, 10 and 17, 1998. All of the 
meetings for December 8, 9, and 10 will be held in the Conference 
Center of the Postal Square Building (PSB), 2 Massachusetts Ave., NE, 
Washington, DC. The December 17th meeting of the Committee on 
Occupational Safety and Health Statistics will be held in Conference 
Room 4328, in the Postal Square Building.
    The Labor Research Advisory Council and its committees advise the 
Bureau of Labor Statistics with respect to technical matters associated 
with the Bureau's programs. Membership consists of union research 
directors and staff members. The schedule and agenda of the meetings 
are as follows:

Tuesday, December 8, 1998

1:30 p.m.--Committee on Compensation and Working Conditions--Meeting 
Room 9/10
    1. Compensation inequality
    2. Developing publication standards for the ECI
    3. Davis Bacon benefits tests
    4. Other business

Wednesday, December 9, 1998

9:30 a.m.--Committee on Employment and Unemployment Statistics--Meeting 
Room 9/10
    1. Update on Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics 
management staffing
    2. Update on National Longitudinal Survey program
    3. Overview of efforts to measure employment of persons with 
disabilities
    4. Occupational Employment Statistics State and Area estimates for 
the 1997 survey and current research proposals for Davis-Bacon data 
collection
    5. Report on the Workforce Investment Act
1:30 p.m.--Committee on Foreign Labor Statistics Meeting Room 9/10
    1. BLS international cooperation activities
    2. Recent developments in international labor markets
Committee on Productivity, Technology and Growth--Meeting Room 9/10
    1. Plans for development and publication of 1998-2008 projections 
and other scheduled analyses and publications of the Office of 
Employment Projections
    2. Recent developments in the Office of Productivity and Technology
    3. Results from the expanded industry productivity database

Thursday, December 10, 1998

1:30 p.m. Committee on Prices and Living Conditions Meeting Room 9/10
    1. Experimental Consumer Price Index for the elderly
    2. Healthcare costs in the Consumer Price Index
    3. Review of policy on expenditure weight updates in the Consumer 
Price Index
    4. Other business

Thursday, December 17, 1998

10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.--Committee on Occupational Safety and Health 
Statistics--Conference Room 4328
    1. Report on the 1997 Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
    2. Report on the number and incidence of days away from work cases 
and the number and incidence of cases involving restricted activity 
only
    3. Participation of additional States in the Survey of Occupational 
Injuries and Illnesses
    4. Followback epidemiology studies
    5. Report on the status of the Census of Fatal Occupational 
Injuries
    6. Discussion of the report on traumatic occupational injury 
research needs and priorities prepared by the National Occupational 
Research Agenda Traumatic Injury Team

    The meetings are open to the public. Persons planning to attend 
these meetings as observers may want to contact Wilhelmina Abner at 
(Area Code 202) 606-5970.


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    Signed at Washington, DC this 13th day of November 1998.
Katharine G. Abraham,
Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 98-31082 Filed 11-19-98; 8:45 am]
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