Job-search period
The work of a dedicated team of employment officers in the Christchurch office of the Labour Department was being hampered by “an ill-conceived policy based on poor or deficient research,” said two University of Canterbury sociologists this week. Professor W. Willmott and Dr T. Dwyer said that available statistics on unemployment showed that the district office’s policy of a 13-week job-search period before registered unemployed people were referred to Project Employment Programme schemes was doing nothing to solve the problem of long-term unemployment in Christchurch. They said that the policy was responsible for an addi-
tional 180 people being unemployed in April. Since October last year, when the 13-week job-search period replaced the eightweek period, Christchurch’s unemployment had increased 38 per cent while the numbers on P.E.P. schemes had fallen 24 per cent. This compared with the national rise over the same period of 39 per cent in unemployment and a drop of 2 per cent in P.E.P. enrolments.
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Press, 3 June 1983, Page 5
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