PLACING SERVICEMEN IN EMPLOYMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 270, 15 November 1945, Page 4

PLACING SERVICEMEN IN EMPLOYMENT

EMPLOYERS CO-OPERATING NATIONAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT’S QUESTIONNAIRE. “Employers in Wanganui will do their best to find suitable employment for returned servicemen and at the same time will endeavour to retain in their employ all workers taken on during the war years," said Mr. G. A. Plummer, Wanganui district manpower officer, yesterday. This was shown by the information supplied to the National Service Department in questionnaires recently sent out for the department’s survey of employment prospects in the district. Tjje purpose of the survey, he explained, was to ascertain certain existing and prospective employment vacancies in. the district, so that returned and demobilised servicemen, who had no re-establishment rights, might be placed in the occupations they were best suited to fill, said Mr. . < Plummer. The information supplied ■ was used, as soon as it was received, by the returned servicemen's section of his department. Already a number ot men had been placed in occupations for which they were best qualified, and without that information those men might well have been directed to other less suitable employment. INFORMATION SOUGHT. The form sent out to the employers requested information of their prewar staffs, present staffs, estimated staff turnover during the readjustment and rehabilitation period as the result of retirements, completion of war work, removal of control over directed workers, and displacement of workers by returned servicemen. Another question required the employer to estimate staff shortages ■ under separate headings such as tirofessional staff, tradesmen, clerical and other “white collar’’ workers. A further question asks what labour aji materials will be required for bull4l®. 1 extensions, so that priorities for various projects can be worked oilt. This information is to be collected In Wellington. All the answers are treated as confidential and from the information supplied a survey under classified trade groups is being made, showing industries in which expansion Is moat likelv and the type of workers chiefly required. The response to the forms sent out in Wanganui had been exceedingly good, said Mr. Plummer. Employers had been most co-operative and the < survey was complete.