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Thursday, May 18, 1972
In December 1971 however, the corresponding figures had risen
to 59,021 manual workers and 3,019 registered and recorded factories.
In
view of these changes, the Plastics Industrial Committee has decided to
conduct a second manpower survey to up-date the data on training requirements
and to make new recommendations when necessary, to Government and industry
in the light of new statistical information.
The information required from employers in this survey will include:-
(i) The number of workers at present employed;
(ii) The number of workers at present under training;
(iii) The number of existing vacancies;
(iv) A forecast of the total number of workers
required by June 1973.
The information collected would be handled in strict confidence
and would be published only in the form of statistical summaries without
reference to any individual factory, a Labour Department spokesman said.
"As such information is vital to the work of the Plastics Industrial
Committee if it is to draw up meaningful plans to meet the training needs
of the industry, employers are requested to provide accurate answers to the
questionnaire," he added.
Owing to the size of the industry, it was not possible to include
all plastics factories. So, a random stratified sampling method has been
adopted to select 450 factories to be covered, he said.
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