Executive Order
11000 -- ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF
LABOR
SECTION 1. Scope. The Secretary of Labor (hereinafter referred to as
the Secretary) shall prepare national emergency plans and develop
preparedness programs covering civilian manpower mobilization, more
effective utilization of limited manpower resources including
specialized personnel, wage and salary stabilization, worker incentives
and protection, manpower resources and requirements, skill development
and training, research, labor-management relations, and critical
occupations. These plans and programs shall be designed to develop a
state of readiness in these areas with respect to all conditions of
national emergency, including attack upon the United States.
SEC. 2. Functions. The Secretary shall:
(a) Civilian manpower mobilization. Develop plans
and issue guidance designed to utilize to the maximum extent civilian
manpower resources, such plans and guidance to be developed with the
active participation and assistance of the States and local political
subdivisions thereof, and of other organizations and agencies concerned
with the mobilization of the people of the United States. Such plans
shall include, but not necessarily be limited to:
(1) Manpower management.
Recruitment, selection and referral, training, employment stabilization
(including appeals procedures), proper utilization, and determination
of the skill categories critical to meeting the labor requirements of
defense and essential civilian activities.
(2) Priorities. Procedures
for translating survival and production urgencies into manpower
priorities to be used as guides for allocating available workers.
(3) National guidance.
Technical guidance to States for the utilization of the nationwide
system of public employment offices and other appropriate agencies for
screening, recruiting, and referring workers, and for other appropriate
activities to meet mobilization and civil defense needs in each
community.
(4) Improving mobilization
base. Programs for more effective utilization of limited manpower
resources, and in cooperation with other appropriate agencies, programs
for recruitment, training, allocation, and utilization of persons
possessing specialized competence or aptitude in acquiring such
competence.
(b) Wage and salary stabilization. Develop plans and
procedures for wage and salary stabilization and for the national and
field organization necessary for the administration of such a program
in an emergency, including investigation, compliance and appeals
procedures; statistical studies of wages, salaries and prices for
policy decisions and to assist operating stabilization agencies to
carry out their functions.
(c) Worker incentives and protection. Develop plans
and procedures for wage and salary compensation and death and
disability compensation for authorized civil defense workers and, as
appropriate, measures for unemployment payments, re-employment rights,
and occupational safety, and other protection and incentives for the
civilian labor force during an emergency.
(d) Resources. Periodically assess manpower
resources in total, by specific skills categories and occupations, and
by geographical locations, in order to estimate availability under an
emergency situation, analyze resource estimates in relation to
estimated requirements in order to identify problem areas, and develop
appropriate recommendations and programs. Provide data and assistance
before and after attack for national resource evaluation purposes of
the Office of Emergency Planning.
(e) Requirements. Develop, in coordination with
manpower-usage agencies, plans, procedures and standards for presenting
claims for civilian manpower, periodically obtain and analyze or make
estimates of requirements for manpower, in total and by specific skill
categories and occupations currently and for any emergency, taking into
account the estimates of needs for military and civilian purposes; and
advise other agencies on the manpower implications of alternative
program decisions. Such evaluation shall take into consideration the
geographical distribution of requirements under emergency conditions.
(f) Claimancy. Prepare plans to claim materials,
equipment, supplies and services needed in support of assigned
responsibilities and other essential functions of the Department from
appropriate agencies and work with such agencies in developing programs
to insure the availability of such resources in an emergency.
(g) Skill development and training. Initiate current
action programs to overcome or offset present or anticipated manpower
deficiencies including those identified as a result of resources and
requirements studies.
(h) Labor-management relations. Develop, after
consultation with the Department of Commerce, the Department of
Defense, the National Labor Relations Board, the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service, the National Mediation Board, and other
appropriate agencies and groups including representatives of labor and
management, plans and procedures including organization plans for the
maintenance of effective labor-management relations during a national
emergency.
(i) Damage assessment. Maintain a capability to
assess the effects of attack upon manpower resources, departmental
installations, and State Employment Security agencies, both at national
and field levels, and provide data to the Department of Defense.
(j) Critical occupations. Develop and maintain a
list of critical occupations for use, when appropriate, with lists of
essential activities as developed by the Department of Commerce. With
the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Selective Service System, and
such other persons as the President may designate, the Secretary shall
develop policies applicable to the deferment of registrants whose
employment in occupations or activities is necessary to the maintenance
of the national health, safety, or interest.
SEC. 3. Research. Within the framework of Federal research objectives,
supervise or conduct research directly concerned with carrying out
emergency preparedness responsibilities, designate representatives for
necessary ad hoc or task force groups, and provide advice and
assistance to other agencies in planning for research in areas
involving the Departments interest.
SEC. 4. Functional Guidance. The Secretary, in carrying out the
functions assigned in this order, shall be guided by the following:
(a) Interagency cooperation. The Secretary shall
assume the initiative in developing over-all civilian manpower
mobilization programs and in coordinating the programs of other
departments and agencies which have responsibility for any segment of
such activities. I shall utilize to the maximum those capabilities of
other agencies qualified to perform or assist in the performance of
assigned functions by contractual or other agreements. Such programs
shall be in consonance with national civil defense plans, programs and
operations of the Department of Defense under Executive Order No. 10952.
(b) Presidential coordination. The Director of the
Office of Emergency Planning shall advise and assist the President in
determining policy for, and assist him in coordinating the performance
of functions under this order with the total national preparedness
program.
(c) Emergency planning. Emergency plans and
programs, and emergency organization structure required thereby, shall
be developed as an integral part of the continuing activities of the
Department of Labor on the basis that it will have the responsibility
for carrying out such programs during an emergency. The Secretary shall
be prepared to implement all appropriate plans developed under this
order. Modifications and temporary organizational changes, based on
emergency conditions, will be in accordance with policy determination
by the President.
SEC. 5. Emergency Actions. Nothing in this order shall be construed as
conferring authority under Title III of the Federal Civil Defense Act
of 1950, as amended, or otherwise, to put into effect any emergency
plan, procedure, policy, program or course of action prepared or
developed pursuant to this order. Such authority is reserved to the
President.
SEC. 6. Redelegation. The Secretary is hereby authorized to redelegate
within the Department of Labor the functions hereinabove assigned to
him.
SEC. 7. Prior Actions. To the extent of any inconsistency between the
provisions of any prior order and the provisions of this order, the
latter shall control. Emergency Preparedness Order No. 8 (heretofore
issued by the Director, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization) (26
F.R. 660-661), is hereby revoked.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
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