Call for more jobs

Press, 7 November 1978, Page 10

Call for more jobs

Suggestions that the unemployment benefit for young people was too high, were misleading and irresponsible, said the president of the Canterbury branch of the Association of Social Workers (Mr A. Taylor). Mr Taylor was commenting oh a statement by Mr J. W. Rowe, director of the Employers’ Federation. “The biggest work disincentive for young people leaving school and seeking work is their disheartening lack of success in finding a job,” Mr Tay-

“With thousands of jobs wiped out of existence in Christchurch alone in the last two years, this is the area of concern the Employers’ Federation should be focusing on and not suggesting that people for whom jobs do not exist should be pushed into destitution.” Support for regional development plans which aimed at prevention of job losses and their associated enormous social costs would be a much more positive and constructive response to the pressing problem of unemployment, Mr Taylor said.