Notice2025-14004
Information Collection Activities; Comment Request
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Published
July 25, 2025
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Abstract
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This program helps to ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments concerning the proposed "reinstatement without change" of the "Current Population Survey (CPS) Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and Occupational Mobility Supplement" to be conducted in January 2026 and January 2028. A copy of the proposed information collection request can be obtained by contacting the individual listed below in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 141 (Friday, July 25, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35318-35319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14004]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Information Collection Activities; Comment Request
AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing
collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This program helps to ensure that requested data can be
provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial
resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly understood,
and the impact of collection requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed ``reinstatement without change'' of
the ``Current Population Survey (CPS) Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and
Occupational Mobility Supplement'' to be conducted in January 2026 and
January 2028. A copy of the proposed information collection request can
be obtained by contacting the individual listed below in the ADDRESSES
section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice on or before September 23, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Morgan Scheinin, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics by email to
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#296b657a76797b6876795c4b45404a694b455a074e465f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a1e3edf2fef1f3e0fef1d4c3cdc8c2e1c3cdd28fc6ced7">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Morgan Scheinin, BLS Clearance
Officer, at 202-691-7628 (this is not a toll free number). (See
ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The CPS Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and Occupational Mobility
supplement is conducted biennially and was last collected in January
2024.
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.
Because this supplement is part of the CPS, the same detailed
demographic information collected in the CPS will be available on
respondents to the supplement. Comparisons will be possible across
characteristics such as sex, race and ethnicity, age, and educational
attainment of the respondent.
The information collected by this survey will be used to determine
the size and nature of the population affected by job displacements and
the needs and scope of programs serving adult displaced workers. It
also will be used to assess employment stability by determining the
length of time workers have been with their current employer and
estimating the incidence of occupational change over the course of a
year. Combining the questions on displacement, job tenure, and
occupational mobility will enable analysts to obtain a more complete
picture of employment stability.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget clearance is being sought for the
CPS Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and Occupational Mobility Supplement
to the CPS. This request is to reinstate this supplement to the CPS,
which has been routinely collected biennially since 1984 to collect
information on workers who were displaced from their jobs and to
measure employee tenure.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is particularly interested in
comments that:
<bullet> Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility.
<bullet> Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used.
<bullet> Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected.
<bullet> Minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submissions of responses.
Title of Collection: CPS Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and
Occupational Mobility Supplement.
OMB Number: 1220-0104.
Type of Review: Reinstatement without change.
Affected Public: Households.
Annual Number of Respondents: 40,000.
Frequency: Once, biennially.
Total Annual Responses: 40,000.
Average Time per Response: 2 minutes.
Estimated Annual Total Burden Hours: 1,333 hours.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval of the information collection request; they also will become a
matter of public record.
Signed on July 22, 2025.
Eric Molina,
Chief, Division of Management Systems, Branch of Policy Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2025-14004 Filed 7-24-25; 8:45 am]
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