Title 29 — Labor
Chapter 1 — Labor Statistics
§ 2b. Studies of productivity and labor costs in industries
Statutory text
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor is authorized and directed to make continuing studies of productivity and labor costs in the manufacturing, mining, transportation, distribution, and other industries.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 76–267 · 54 Stat. 249
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 2b
June 7, 1940, ch. 267, 54 Stat. 249
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 7, 1940, ch. 267, 54 Stat. 249
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Provision of this section authorizing appropriations of up to $100,000 for studies by the bureau in the first fiscal year was omitted.
Amendments
1954—Act , repealed second par. which required Secretary of Labor to submit annually to Congress reports of findings under this section.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of Labor, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Labor, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 6 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Credits
1940–1954 · 2 acts
- 1940June 7, 1940, ch. 267, 54 Stat. 249
- 1954Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1076, § 1(27), 68 Stat. 968.
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(June 7, 1940, ch. 267, 54 Stat. 249; Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1076, § 1(27), 68 Stat. 968.)