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HRD-78-4 1 (1978-04-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaxcw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUMENT RESiVE 05721 - f B10259691 Questionable Need for Some Department of Labor Traaiing Programs. HRD-78-4; B-163922. April 10, 1918. !2 pp. + 2 appendices (14 pp.). Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Coaptroller General. Issue Area: Employment and Training Prcgrams: Employability of Selected Target Groups (3201): on-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Programs: Emploment Discrimination in Skilled Craft Unions (1011). Contact: Human Resources Div. Budget Function: Education, Manpower, and Social Services: Training and Employment (504). Organization Concerned: Department of Labor. Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Education and labor; Senate Committee on Human Resources; Congress. Authority. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 801). Manpower Development and Iraining Act of 1962 (42 U.S.C. 2571). Under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) of 1973, the Department of Labor funds Fzograms to provide job training and employaient opportunities for economically disadvantaged, unemployed, and underemployed persons. The Apprenticeship Outreach Program (AOP) was designed to recruit, counsel, tutor, and refer primarily minority youths to apprenticeship positicas in constrtction trades. The gational On-The-Job Training Progra.'c (OJT*s) primaty nbjective is to provide training tc, 'nempioyed, underemployed, and econonically disadvantaqed persons for jobs in skilled occupational sboLtage areas, many ot which are construction rslated. Findinqz/Concl'isions: Conditions which existed when the Department of Labor began the apprenticeship program have substantially caanqed. Employment opportunities in the construction industry have decl.ned, ceusing a change in placement emphasis to general jobs. This policy snift urderlined the question of the continued need for AGP. The results of several construction related on-the-job training projects during 1975 and 1976 demonstrated placement and opfrational Frcklems. In aany cases, program participants were act receiving adequate training. nor were they aware of any on-the-jct trairing to be obtained. Subcontractors have been 'sing program funds instead of tLeir own funds to support their regular apprenticeship systems. Some national contractors have used about one-third of the funds to pay -or headquarters and regional admaiistrative operations. Insufficient oversight and evaluation b., the Depaitaent o± Labor contributed to the prokems of ti.ese proqrams. Reccmmendations: The SecLetary cf Labor should eliminate the AOP in favor of less costly alternatives. It the program is continued, performance criteria should ke established that: include minimum requirements on the service level

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