Job promotions move

Press, 1 November 1979, Page 4

Job promotions move

Metropolitan local authorities should form a jobs promotion committee that actively seeks employment opportunites, the Christ-1 church City Council’s community services committee said yesterday. Such a committee had been proposed by Mr T. N.i D. Anderson, a Transport Board member. Councillors also said that the Labour Department l should study the idea of hiring community youth employment officers to live and work in the suburbs. i The Canterbury Employ- . ment Advisory Committee’s ) chairman (Mr M. B. HayesV Suggested that any new 1

committee might form itself under the Canterbury United Council. City councillors said that was not a good idea, but the regional body should be told about the widespread need also for jobs outside the metropolitan area. Unemployment statistics I and trends should be sup-* plied to the United Council. Some councillors feared that there would be little' progress if the United Coun-i cil was asked to do the job. ! “That United Council is a disaster." said Cr Vicki Buck. “The only reason it should be allowed to exist is because it does nothing." But Cr Mollie Clark, a United Council member who;

' called the body a “toothless I wonder,” said the unemployment problem should at [least be brought to its attention. It would be good to ! present a united front to the on the problem. Cr Buck said it should not have been created in the ! first place: giving it any 'more work would only be lending it credibility. Cr Noala Massey said that community employment 'officers, if the Labour Department accepted the idea, ‘should live there and be able to relate to the young jobless residents. Such officers should be employed in all suburbs, and should be simiilar to the worker doing a I job on her own in Wainoni. '