EMPLOYERS' PART

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25177, 14 April 1945, Page 9

EMPLOYERS' PART

JOBS FOR EX-SERVICEMEN (0.c.) WAXGAXUI, Friday The successful functioning of any rehabilitation scheme rested primarily with the employer and any success to date was the result of the employers' co-operation with rehabilitated servicemen, claimed the secretary of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, Mr C: C. Camp, when he addressed members of the Wanganui Employers' Association at. the annual meeting. The vast number of employers felt that they had a duty and the rehabilitation figures showed that they were doing it, he declared. All the Government had done was to set up committees. According to the latest figures available. approximately 06,000 men were ready for rehabilitation, 40.000 from overseas and 26,000 from homo service, said Mr Camp. There were still 10,000 on leave, but nearly 9000 had been reinstated in their previous jobs. It may have been a law that these men had to be returned' to their jobs, but without the co-operation of the employers its implementation would have been impossible. Again, 14,000 had gone into private employment. The Government could claim that it put them there, hut this would not have been a fact had not the employers been prepared to accept them. The Civil Service had absorbed 919 and only 721 had gone into trade training schemes. Just on 2000 had gone into their own businesses, or on farms. "These figures are something th*> employer is proud ?)f," declared Mr Camp. "We will still have to face up to the position when thousands return from overseas."