Special-work total down

Press, 14 May 1979, Page 4

Special-work total down

|PA Wellington,: The number of persons:, jobless or employed under! i -special-work schemes] declined by 1258 in the two, weeks to the end of April.) ] according to figures given! (last evening by the Minister) I of Labour (Mr Bolger). They show that :he num-! ber employed under special- i | work schemes at April 271 * (was 25,598, a decrease of) 999 on the number employed): I at April 12. A week ago Mr Bolger re-i I leased figures showing)

24.897 persons jobless at! April 27, a decrease of 259 on the previous two.weeks. Mr Bolger said on Friday: that most of the reduction: in special workers had oc-! curred in the private-sector job-creat ion programmes.! The main cause of this was' the ending of subsidy pay-] merits for employees ie-| cruited under the farm-! employment scheme and the; additional-jobs scheme be-: fore last October 31. However, subsidies would continue to be available lor;

I the initial six months of !(employment to employers who notified qualifying vacancies for farm work or i additional, jobs under these ] two programmes.' * District special-work figlures at April 27 (April 12 (figures in brackets) include: ] Blenheim, public sector ■! 140 (139). private sector 135 ‘((148); Nelson. 198 (204), 216 ! (220); Greymouth, 322 (327) 141 (145): Christchurch. 2169; (2186). 1101 (1609); Timaru.l 1 115 (113), 177 (175).