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BLS has published today the thirty-day notice for the Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and Occupational Mobility Supplement to CPS.

The Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and Occupational Mobility Supplement provides information on people who have lost or left jobs because their plant or company closed or moved, there was insufficient work for them to do, or their position or shift was abolished. It also gathers the number of years workers have been with their current employer and the economic impact of tenure. The information can be used to assess employment stability, displacement levels, occupational change over the year, and the need for, and scope of, programs serving adult displaced workers.

Comments on this collection are due to OMB by November 7. This Supplement represents a "reinstatement without change of a previously approved collection." Copies of the ICR are available from Darrin King or http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain For additional information, see the August 4, 2009 FEDERAL REGISTER.

Excerpt:

This supplement will gather information on workers who have lost or left their jobs because their plant or company closed or moved, there was insufficient work for them to do, or their position or shift was abolished. Data will be collected on the extent to which displaced workers received advance notice of job cutbacks or the closing of their plant or business. For those workers who have been reemployed, the supplement will gather data on the types of jobs they found and will compare current earnings with those from the lost job.

The incidence and nature of occupational changes in the preceding year will be queried. The survey also probes for the length of time workers (including those who have not been displaced) have been with their current employer. Additional data to be collected include information on the receipt of unemployment compensation, the loss of health insurance coverage, and the length of time spent without a job.