LABOUR TURNOVER

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 77, Issue 6974, 6 October 1948, Page 5

LABOUR TURNOVER

POSITION EASIER IN SOUTH ISLAND REASONABLE BUOYANCY DESIRABLE Christchurch and Dunedin manufacturers are finding it easier to obtain male labour than are North Idand factories, according to the latest monthly review of employment, issued by the National Employment Service. Partly because of the keen competition of employers to obtain labour, many workers are changing their jobs, the review says, and .in six months up to April this year 32,000 men jn the four main districts changed their jobs. Although labour turnover rates are high, there is usually only a lag of a day or two between jobs, so that the wastage of man hours is limited. “The present acute shortage of workers is a problem for individual industrialists,” adds the review, “but from a humanitarian point of view a reasonable buoyancy in the demand for labour is necessary to ensure full employment and job security for workers.”