CATEGORY A MEN LAST EXEMPTED.

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CATEGORY A MEN LAST EXEMPTED.

Further relaxations of the manpower control would be made from time to time, but category A men who had been held on appeal by reason of the essential nature of their employment would be the last group to receive complete exemption. '.' I would like to add a word on the Government's plans for establishing a national employment service to provide for voluntary placement or the reorganising of labour," the Minister continued, " The Government has, for some time, had in view the establishment of such a service to exercise the following main functions: (1) To ■ give effect to' the Government's policy of full employment; (2) by co-operation with the employers and the employees to anticipate and to plan to meet labour requirements or retrenchments, to assist in any decentralisation of industry which may be necessary and to afford special v facilities for the placement of disabled persons; (3)'to develop a special higher appointments service to work in co-operation, on the'one hand, with the technical colleges, the universities, Government training schemes, etc., and the other hand with employers requiring specially trained or professional or supervisory staff; (4) to provide _ a general employment service, and with this to couple a special service to as-. sist. persons becoming incapacitated for their normal work or otherwise requiring retraining or to be put in touch with established vocational guidance centres.

" The sudden collapse of Japan has made early consideration of these employment service proposals necessary, and the Government intends to introduce legislation immediately to give effect to the proposals," the Minister concluded.