‘Shorter hours may cut jobless’
NZPA Sydney Reduced working hours and earlier retirement might be the only answer to continuing high levels of unemployment in Western democracies, according to Dr Joseph O’Donnell, a world authority on industrial relations.
Dr O’Donnell, a former baker who is now executive director of the Harvard University trade-union programme, is in Australia to attend a series of seminars and meetings organised by Enterprise Australia, a nonpolitical organisation seeking closer co-operation between employers, unions, and the Government with the objective of preserving the freeenterprise system.
The young were the main victims, he said. “You are going to produce a group of highly educated dissident people with no jobs who become part of the radical groups in society,” he said in Sydney. On retraining he said: “Workers should be retrained in the new technologies which overtake their industries, but industry would be better off retiring a 55-year-old worker on a full pension than trying to retrain him.”
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