§5050 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Director must coordinate volunteer programs under this law with each other, with community action programs, and with related federal, State, and local programs. The Director must also meet with other agency leaders to push for more use of volunteers and to set up regular ways to recruit, refer, and give orientation or training before volunteers start. Working with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the Secretaries of Labor, Commerce, and the Treasury and other officials, the Director must urge state and local governments, charities, service groups, and private employers to (1) count volunteer experience when hiring and (2) include a place on all job applications to list and describe volunteer work.

Title 42, §5050

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The Director shall take necessary steps to coordinate volunteer programs authorized under this chapter with one another, with community action programs, and with other related Federal, State, and local programs. The Director shall also consult with the heads of other Federal, State, and local agencies responsible for programs related to the purposes of this chapter with a view to encouraging greater use of volunteer services in those programs and establishing in connection with them systematic procedures for the recruitment, referral, or necessary preservice orientation or training of volunteers serving pursuant to this chapter. The Director, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the Secretaries of Labor, Commerce, and the Treasury and officials of other appropriate departments and agencies, shall take all appropriate steps to encourage State and local governments, charitable and service organizations, and private employers (1) to take into account experience in volunteer work in the consideration of applicants for employment; and (2) to make provisions for the listing and description of volunteer work on all employment application forms.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–113, Oct. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 394, known as the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 4950 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1979—Pub. L. 96–143 inserted provisions requiring the Director in consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the Secretaries of Labor, Commerce, and the Treasury and officials of other appropriate departments and agencies to take steps to encourage employers to review the consideration they give volunteer service in the information requested on their standard application forms.

§5050 Coordination with other programs