STATE PLACEMENT SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22121, 17 June 1937, Page 14

STATE PLACEMENT SERVICE

FIRST YEAR'S WORK FEW JOBS DECLINED BY " UNEMPLOYED At the end of March the State Placement Service had been in operation for 10 months, and during that period thousands of jobs were offered, and only 100 declined the proffered employment, states a report issued by this new branch of the Labour Department. One of the most recent conclusions reached by the Placement Service is that of the partly-disabled men on is books (those who have lest the use of a limb) only 7 per cent, are unfit for industry. Allowing for the fact that many completely hopeless cases, classified as "unemployables," were unlikely to keep in touch with the service, the report classifies the 26,218 enrolments received during the first year that the service has been opei-at-ing as follows: Industrially fit .. 19,563 Fit for light work .. 4,467 Unemployable .. 2,188 Generally, states the report, this final category is made up of men considered unacceptable to employers because of advanced age or impaired health or faculties, but the service is trying to find for them special employment in the performance of useful though possibly small tasks. No fewer than 385 different classes of jobs are classified in the long detailed list of placements for the JO months, those predominating being: General labourers, 8399; farm labourers, 4677; carpenters, 1877; gardeners, 714; motor drivers, 784; clerks, 499. A good proportion of the total placements showed positions permanently filled, though the larger proportion related to more or less casual employment.