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PAGE A2, THE HERALD, Wednesday, September 1, 1974

Manpower

The government has
announced its intention to

integrate the Unem-
ployment Insurance
Commission and the

’ Department of Manpower

and Immigration. The
Prime Minister has
authorized the development
of an integration plan: As
the minister responsible for
the Commission and the
Department and as minister
designate for the new
organization I would like to
describe in greater detail
the reasons for this in-
tegration.

The employment service
was transferred out of the
Unemployment Insurance
Commission in 1965 because
it was felt that a positive
manpower policy could best
mature if it was allowed to
develop independently of
any responsibility for an
unemployment insurance
program. That expectation

as been realized. Both the
manpower programs and
the unemployment in-
surance program have
undergone extensive change
and development.

Manpower services for
counselling, placement,
training and mobility have
been strengthened and their
impact has significantly
increased. In addition, the
department has established
and expanded programs of
job creation, The depart-
ment'’s abjectives have
broadened to encompass the
development of a com-
munity employment
strategy and to
acknowledge that
Canadians increasingly
seek self-fulfilment as well
as income, from their work.

At the same time the
legislative amendments
introduced to the unem-
ployment = insurance
program in 1971 have
provided much more
positive income protection.

In the past decade there
have also been significant
changes in the size, com-
pesilion and functioning of
the labour market and the
atlitudes of Canadians
towards work.

Canada has had, and
continues to have, the most

rapidly growing labour .

farce in the western world.
Each year, over half a
million young people leave
school and enter the labour
force. Once there, they
experience major em-
ployment difficulties —
younger .workers account
for nearly half our unem-
played. Women enter the
labour force in increasing
numbers. They slay in it
except for temporary ab-
sences related to their
family circumstances.
Their rapidly increasing
numbers and .increasin
attachment to the jo

market are pushing their
unemployment rates up.
extremely

The current

‘because of

heavy inflow ta the job
market will continue at least
into the early 1980's, when
the flow of the new workers
with their job needs and
problems will begin to taper
off. ,

Our economy has been
undergoing, and will con-

linue to undergo, major and -

far-reaching structural
transformations based on
the adoption of new patlerns
of technology, new trading
relationships and on our
emerging stalus as a post-
industrial society. We can
expect, increasingiy, to be a
service-oriented economy
and we can expect growing
efficiency to continue to
reduce the now smail
percentage of our
population working in the
primary industries.

Our changing attiludes
and views also have a
significant impact on the
labour market. Canadians
remain strongly committed
to the work ethic, but their
growing affluence and
levels of education are
making them much more
selective aboul the kinds of
work which they will readily
undertake. These changing
attiludes are zeflected in
more emphasis on self-
fulfilment in jobs as well as
a reluctance to work at
traditional wage levels and
in disagreeable jobs or work
environments. The rising
expectations of many in-
dividuals and groups have
exerted new stresses on the
labour market and the
economy. .

The conjunction of these
immense and continuing
changes in our labour force,
our economy, and our
emerging new attitudes, has
produced ane of the mest
dynamic, fluid, and
changing labour markels in
the world. On any given day,
close to ten million
Canadians are either at
work or looking for jobs.
But, in a typical year, there
are over three million in-

stances — either voluntary

or involuntary — of
Canadians leaving their jobs
and taking new em-

ployment. Moreover, there
are a similar: number of
instances. of Canadians

entering and leaving the’

labour force during the
course of a year. Each year
since the end of the war,
about one Canadian in five
has had at least a short
period of unemployment
regardless of whether the
general unemployment rate
was up or down. In any
three-year period. baif of all
workers will have changed
employers. The vast
majority of Canadians in the
labour force still seek full-
lime work, but there is a
growing percentage who,
their cir-
cumstances, seek either
part-time work or part-year
work,

and_U.I.C. merge

These changes have in-
creased the demands of the
manpower programs and
have underscored the need
toensure that the manpower
services are readily
available to those whose
requirements are most
acute — the unemployed
worker. Over the past three

ears the two organizations

ave cooperated in a
program to harmonize their

- services in order to preserve
the integrity of the com-
prehensive unemployment
insurance program now in
effect and to utilize to the
fullest extent possible the
manpower services
designed to facilitale the re-
entry of workers into stable
and rewarding employment.

Notwithstanding the
success of the  har-
monization program it
sulfers from several serious
limitalions. It demands a
duplication of the
documentation required of
clients and a complex and
costly system of paper
communication between the
two organizations. The
public is, moreover, obliged
to shuttle between the UIC
office and the Canada
Manpower Centre. The
instilutional barriers that
necessarily exist between
two separate organizations
do not permit us to realize
the greater efficiencies that
could be derived from the
integration of the
operational, administrative
and management systems.
Nor can we develop a fully
comprehensive approach to
the formulation of policies
and programs’ which
respond to the complexities
of Canada’s present labour
market. ;

The integration of the
commission and the
department into a new
organizatior will enable us
to build on the cooperative
achievements to date and to
provide more effective
service to the Canadian
labour market. We expect
that the integration of the
commission and the
department will enable us to
provide better service to the

public by:

-.a rationalization. of.the.
network of local offices, «<< ~
- the integration’ of most: ''

service points to one-stop
centres where the complete
range of services of the lwo
organizations would be
available to the public.

- a simplification of the
documentation required by
clients.

- the faster and more
systemalic exposure of
clientele to the manpower
services,

- an improvement in the
measures to protect the
integrity of the unem-
ployment insurance
program.

A major aim of the new
organization will be to in-
crease the sensitivity of

September 10th.

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Manpower
and immigration
Robert Andras, Minna

IFyouve been toying with some
ideas for the Local lnitiatives Program,
your time is just about up. All appli-
cations for LLP projects must bein our
hands no later than September 10th,
1976, Your idea should be original and
innovative and create useful jabs
where there were no jabs before. It
mustalso employ people registered
at a Canada Manpower Centre. Your
project can get undarway anytime
between November ist this year and
January 31st, 1977, Sc come on, do
a little quick thinking. Who knows, the
ideas you have this summer may
be working for you this winter.

Main-d'euvre
et Immigration
Robart Andeas, eunisize

‘Apniications available now,
See your Local Canada Manpower Centre
or Job Creation Office. —

policies and programs to
regional and local needs.
This can be accomplished
largely by the creation of
regional organizations in
each province; a decen-
tralization of authority to
local offices; and the
establishment of local ad-
visory bodies including
business, labour and other
community representatives.
The scale of the .new
organization which will
allow for a greater decen-
tralization of authority to
the integrated service
points, should enable them
to provide a .quicker
response to the particular
needs of their clientele.
While the integration of
the commission and the
department is not being
undertaken as an economy
measure it should result in
the more efficient use of
available resources for the

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administration of the
Manpower and = unem-
ployment instrance
programs; a lowering of the
level of frictional unem-
polyment; and possibly
some reduction .in UI
payments,

Although a new
organization will be created
we intend to retain a
commission within the
overall structure and to
Maintain a role for the
representatives of labour
and employers. The
proposed commission will,
as now, oversee the func-
tioning of the Unem-
ployment Insurance Ac-
count and. undertake an
enlarged consultative and
advisory role in respect of
the wider range of iabour
market and immigration
matters that will be the
mandate of the new
organization.

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as far as you needto
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than you are now).

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ANNE McGOWAN AND SHANNON FERGUSON, General Enquiry
Clerks at Manpower and the Unemployment Insurance Commission meet

at the new doorway between the two separate functions which now

become integrated into one depariment, A hole in the wall was punched in

fast week marking the first step of integration. The new operation willbe .

guided jointly by Manpower Manager Jim Switzer and U.1.C. Manager Al
Morris. For the time being the operation will be known as the Department
of Manpower ard Immigration.

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