August05 Q2

2. TIM MACINDOE (National—Hamilton West) to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: How can employers, organisations and groups access the recently announced Jobs Ops and Community Max schemes?

Hon PAULA BENNETT (Minister for Social Development and Employment) : The calls have been flooding in. Groups of employers with entry-level employment or volunteering opportunities can call Work and Income and get young people into those roles really quickly. If they meet the simple criteria for Job Ops, we can pay up to 50 percent of their wages for those 6-month opportunities. For Community Max we will pay the minimum wage for 30 hours a week to get projects done in peoples towns and communities. I encourage employers and community groups to give Work and Income a call on 0800 778008.

Tim Macindoe: What kinds of employment opportunities are now available?

Hon PAULA BENNETT: We have had calls from all over New Zealand, and here are just a few: a dairy farm in Fielding, a concrete company in Tauranga, and a transport company in the South Island. We have even had employers who have called about Job Ops and who have gone on to list several other vacancies in their business with Work and Income. I am really pleased that employers are listing more vacancies with us, realising the high calibre of people and broad skill set that Work and Income can provide. Recently we had a guy in his fifties at one of our Canterbury Work and Income branches who was looking for work, and—I kid you not—within 10 minutes he had a job with a company down the road.

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[keithholden]

If they are ligit jobs the teenagers will do someone else out of a job.

And the tax payer will pickup the tab.

Training would be better for jobs that will come when the recession is better.

Giving people jobs that dont exist, paying with money that has to be borrowed.

get rid of minimum wages, more jobs will arrise. pump petrol. cheque out oporator. and those jobs may lead to mechanics, or retail when recession ends.