A bill to require the Secretary of Labor to make periodic reports concerning the rate of unemployment and the extent to which the unemployment rate is attributable to the energy shortage.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Requires the Secretary of Labor, within the thirty-day period following the date of the enactment of this Act and each thirty-day period thereafter, to submit to the Congress and the Administrator of the Federal Energy Office such reports as may be necessary to keep Congress and the Administrator informed as to the current and prospective unemployment rate in the United States, including the extent to which such unemployment rate is attributable to the energy shortage, together with the recommendations of the said Secretary with respect thereto. Directs the Administrator of the Federal Energy Office, upon being notified by the Secretary of Labor that the unemployment rate of any State has increased by 0.5 percent or more over the rate in 1972, shall, if such increase was attributable to the energy shortage, take such action as may be necessary to increase that State's petroleum allotment to return the unemployment rate in such State to that rate which existed for the period immediately preceding the period during which such rate so increased.…