Show War n Queer Job Condition Positions Stay Open Despite Large Jobless Payments Editors Editor's note Tho The shoe Is on tho the other foot During the war var warthe warthe the job looked for tho man but hut now the man again must look for the job Temporary unemployment unemployment un un- un- un employment is a bogey to many Utah workers who ho arc are threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened by the return to peacetime peacetime peace peace- time standards To acquaint these workers with the help which the state can offer through its p 1 I 0 o 3 y m ITI e t n a t compensation and employment ment service sence The Tue Telegram Telegram Telegram Tele Tele- gram has asked B. B L L. L Flanagan executive e director Utah department depart depart- ment meat of employment ment security to prepare a series of four c explanatory explanatory ex ex- articles This Is the first of the series In any discussion of or unemployment ment insurance th there re should be kept Li in mind four things a things a fact a a. belief a principle and a condition condition condition condi condi- tion The fact fact Nearly Nearly half the individuals individuals indi indi- who have drawn unemployment unemployment unemployment I insurance since Jan 1 1946 now are gainfully employed The belief There belief There are very few employers so un-American un that they would cudgel a worker into a galley job to keep his family from starving The principle The principle The problem is not that men are drawing unemployment unemployment unemployment insurance or readjustment readjustment readjustment readjust readjust- ment allowances the problem actually actually actually ac ac- ac- ac is that jobs are going un un- un- un filled The condition condition i leal c a I 1 occupational and psychological o 0 g i c a 1 dislocations caused by the war will have a tremendous effect upon our economy for a genera genera- tion America and Americans cannot and will not just turn their individual lives and habits back to what the they were on Dec 7 1941 1911 Ideas Discarded I discard any idea that the average average av av- av American worker is a chiseler chiseler chis- chis eler and I discard v with th equal emphasis emphasis em em- any idea that the average American employer is unreason unreason- able And although the plain truth of the matter is that the real problem idle problem idle men and vacant jobs is is only partially within the thc province lace ince of the Utah department of employment security as it is currently currently currently cur cur- constituted I will discuss briefly that particular problem Since Jan 1 1912 1942 the Utah de department department department de- de of employment security and and all other unemployment insurance in insurance insurance in- in agencies in the country country- have been without their own employment employment em em- services Despite the efforts of the governors of the country and despite the actions of ofa a great many congressmen the federal government has emphatically emphatically emphatically cally declared that it intends to continue the borrowed state employment employment employment em em- services as a United States employment service The answer to idle men and vacant jobs rests then with the limitations which we will ill discuss with the United States employment employment employment employ employ- ment service and with the employers employ employ- ers of the state stat and nation En Entitled ti tied to Insurance If a person is able and available for work and cannot find work worl he is entitled to unemployment insurance in insurance in- in if he has sufficient earnIngs earnings earnings earn earn- ings and is not subject to any of the several disqualifications provided provided provided pro pro- vided in the law Every person who is drawing See Page 20 Column 3 B 6 War Resu js hi n O Qu er Job ond l on Continued from Local ra Page c unemployment insurance In Utah Is registered with the United States Stales employment service c. If Ie the United States employment service cannot match an nn idle worker with witha a vacant job job and and If it we have no knowledge of any other job offer to the tho worker we worker we have no re recourse recourse recourse re- re course but to pay him his his his' unemployment unemployment unemployment Insurance or his readjustment readjustment read read- allowances as the case may be Just why there are several thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of ot workers registered at the employment service and thousands of jobs reported available Is an employment service question but here arc some of at the reasons why such a condition can exist If It the employer does not register register register regis regis- ter his job openings s with the employment employment employment em em- service the employment service has difficulty In getting gettin an available worker and a vacant job ob together War Var Market 1 Gone Since the end of the war war the the end of plus cost the plus the end of a government government government gov gov- market for almost all the output the output the beginning of good old- old fashioned American competition the employer declines to consider the type of help he was glad to get a year year or more ago Hundreds probably thousands of these less qualified workers established unemployment unemployment unemployment un un- employment insurance rights in wartime the employment service may have a problem trying to place them in peacetime Then there is the problem of matching the man to the job open open- ing I attended a meeting the theother theother theother other night and an employer of agricultural ag labor pointedly said I have Interviewed 30 airplane pilots Hell I dont don't want 30 airplane airplane airplane air air- plane pilots I want one man to torun torun torun run a manure spreader In considering why many jobs particularly low pay jobs are unfilled unfilled unfilled un un- un- un filled the item of expanded bank accounts should be noted For example example example ex ex- ample in 1 1939 3 Americans had 6 56 in savings while in 1914 19 they had or seven times as much One Utah employer complained to us that 78 of his former had re refused refused refused re- re fused to come back to work He believed it was because they were drawing unemployment insurance Investigation showed only five were drawing unemployment in insurance insurance insurance in- in and 73 were living on their bank accounts or on other work The Th five were taken off our rolls lolls Occupations In an economy in which there are something like or more occupations in an economy where a business will fail if it cannot meet its competition it is difficult at best to match an idle man to the vacant Job but In this period of readjustment it is doubly cult rhe The person who five years ago had never operated anything but buta a plow or a pencil has had considerable considerable considerable con con- experience in mechanical trades in meeting engineering problems in personnel work in radio in aircraft and so on on through hundreds and thousands of ot jobs Some of them are less than mediocre In their new field and some are arc expert All have the theone theone theone one thing in common however a azeal azeal azeal zeal to get away from the old job and begin on the new It seems from here that this offers the employment employment employment em em- service a problem At least it offers us problems when I without the aid of crystal ball or fairy godmother wo we have to say when an individual is to consider himself through day dreaming and tell him to get back into the old rut or go without eating Matching Men Jobs There is one OIe more very important important important tant employment service principle which I would like to mention The fundamental reason for the existence of an employment service service service ice Is to get the man and the together with the least possible delay And It should not be just any man man man-It It should be the man who comes nearest to meeting the specification set out by the em em- From my point of ot view view this emphatically means that the employment employment employment em em- service is not to give an unemployment insurance claimant claimant claimant claim claim- ant the first chance at a job merely merely merely mere mere- ly because he is a claimant When an employer places an order for fora a 3 worker he expects to have someone someone someone some some- one referred to him on qualifications not have a worker referred merely to get him off the unemployment unemployment unemployment insurance rolls Hence It ft would be entirely possible possIble possible ble for fOl the employment service to tomake tomake i make malte one referral or referrals and not refer a single benefit claimant If conditions were such that the imants came closer to meeting the employers' employers needs than the claimants In this ancle I have attempted to show briefly that part of the employment security program program the employment service part part part- over which we have had no control control control con con- for many years In succeeding succeeding succeeding succeed succeed- ing articles I will wm discuss the re responsibilities responsibilities re- re of the Utah department department depart depart- ment of employment security |