Plan for women to create their own jobs

Press, 11 September 1986, Page 16

Plan for women to create their own jobs

By

LEE mm THEWS

A labour pool from which women could create jobs for themselves is a new project the Canterbury Women’s Employment Trust wants to start. The idea is that women could band together and pool skills and information. People offering work could contact the pool and employers and employees could be matched up. It would differ from a conventional job agency in that the women would set their own employment conditions. They would be paid directly by the employer, not by the pool. It would cater especially for women who

wanted to work part-time or flexible hours and for women who wanted to work in co-operatives. The trust is looking for a co-ordinator to set up the pool. “We would like someone who is prepared to go and talk to women in doctors surgeries and supermarkets to find out exactly what they want,” says trust worker, Angela Yeoman. “She would set the pool up by using her findings.”. z > The trust has a lottery

board’s grant to pay a coordinator’s wages. Angela Yeoman says the job could be done either in six months working fulltime or be spread over a year part-time. The pool would work independently of the trust, although the trust would be there to help with any problems and to provide information. “Ideally, we would like to see women’s labour pools set up in every suburb in Christchurch,” Angela Yeoman says. For enquiries about the Canterbury Women’s Employment Trusts project, phone 81-818.