---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2402"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2402"
heading: "Congressional statement of purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2402"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — National Productivity and Quality of Working Life"
  - "Subchapter I — Findings, Purpose, and Policy; Definitions"
---

# §2402. Congressional statement of purpose


It is the purpose of this chapter—

- (1) to establish a national policy which will encourage [productivity growth](/usc/15/2404.md?p=3) consistent with needs of the economy, the natural environment, and the needs, rights, and best interests of management, the work force, and consumers; and
- (2) to establish as an independent establishment of the executive branch a National [Center](/usc/15/2404.md?p=1) for Productivity and [Quality of Working Life](/usc/15/2404.md?p=4) to focus, coordinate, and promote efforts to improve the rate of [productivity growth](/usc/15/2404.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–136, title I, § 102, Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 734.)