A bill to reorganize the Executive Branch to establish a National Center for Productivity and Work Quality; to provide for a review of the activities of all Federal agencies including implementation of all Federal laws, regulations and policies which impede the productive performance and efficiency of the American economy; to encourage joint labor, industry and government efforts to improve national productivity and work quality; to establish a Federal policy with respect to continued productivity resources in the United States.
National Center for Productivity and Economic Competition Act - Title I: General Provisions - States that it is the purpose of this Act to consolidate in one governmental unit the responsibility to: (1) establish a national policy for short-term and long-term productivity growth and work quality in the United States; (2) correct those public and private structural imbalances which impede productivity, growth, improved work quality, and the effective performance of society and the economy; (3) identify ways and means for more effective collaborative joint efforts by labor and industry to effect growth in productivity and improved work quality; (4) identify, encourage, and support development and implementation of all useful technologies, systems, incentives, methods, and techniques for enhancing growth of productivity and improving work quality in the public and private sectors of the United States; (5) maximize the contributions of the Federal Government to productivity growth and improved work quality in both the private and public sector, including the Federal Establishment; and (6) increase public understanding of productivity and work quality, the ways in which productivity and work quality can be improved, and the urgency of such improvement in all sectors of the economy.
Title II: National Center for Productivity and Economic Competition - Establishes as an independent establishment of the executive branch the National Center for Productivity and Work Quality to be under the general direction of a board of directors of specified membership.
Specifies the functions of the Center consonant with the purposes of this Act.
Authorizes the Executive Director of the Center to enter into contracts, without regard to Federal procurement statutes, for research and demonstration programs or projects to effectuate the achievement of the purposes of this Act. Specifies limitations to be placed on the authority to make grants and contracts under this Act.
Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides that the duties, functions, and personnel of the National Commission on Productivity and Work Quality are transferred to the Center, and the Commission is abolished.
Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this Act specified sums for fiscal years 1975 through 1979.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Government Operations.
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