PLACEMENT SERVICE

Southland Times, Issue 23182, 24 April 1937, Page 11

PLACEMENT SERVICE

POSITIONS FOR WOMEN In a 40-page handbook for the guidance of officers in the State Placement Service, Mr A. J. Ridler, controller of employment and director of the service, deals at length with qualities officers should cultivate and the manner in which they should tackle their problem. “It must be accepted, he states, “that employers are the best judges of the labour they require, and their opinions and beliefs must always be respected and never queried. An employer is always right,’ except, of course, in so far as unwarranted unfavourable criticism of the service is concerned; even then endeavours to correct the impression must be utterly courteous and patient”. * In enlarging on the idea that every legitimate opportunity of operating the service of the employers should be seized so as to create goodwill, Mr Ridler confers on officers the right to extend the operations of the service in the placement of women. As an instance, he gives the suppositious case of an. employer requiring a ographer. Though the service officially caters only for males, every effort should in such case be made to secure a suitable female stenographer. In the event of females applying for enrolment they should be advised that their applications cannot officially .be received, but that their qualifications will be noted in case a suitable request is received. Mr Ridler expresses the view that every 100 men placed in productive employment automatically provide employment for an additional 108. Each male has an average of 1.761 dependants. Therefore each 100 men placed in productive employment provide an improved standard of living, health and comfort for an additional 474 individuals, or 574 all .told.