T H E J O B S L E T T E R 1 3 7
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published in New Zealand 10 January 2001
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JEREMY RIFKIN
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMMES
SHORTER WORKING WEEK
PRESENTEEISM
PORTFOLIO WORK
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* Our Diary of key events over the last few weeks. IT skill
shortages, new jobs being created, immigrant doctors
retraining scheme, regional development for Northland,
International Year of Volunteers, Winz regional plans, teacher
shortage, brain drain, Japan the internet nation, and more...
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13701.htm
* It's been five years since the publication of Jeremy Rifkin's controversial book The
End of Work, and it has been released in a new paperback edition. In a special
introduction to the Penguin edition, Rifkin observes th
at structural unemployment remains high, and the task of �re-envisioning work�
continues to be a major social and political challenge.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/art/rifkin05.htm
* Rifkin also argues that there is an opportunity to create millions of new jobs in
the Third Sector � the civil society � and create greater �social capital� in our
neighbourhoods and communities.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13700.htm#rifkin
* The Taranaki LEC has launched a project aimed at giving young unemployed people work
and training in the not-for-profit sector.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13700.htm#youthworks
* Winz in Canterbury now has case managers with a dedicated caseload of young people.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13700.htm#winz
* Simon Mortlock Lawyers in Christchurch have launched the new programme designed to
link school leavers directly into office employment with the city�s leading legal and
accounting firms.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13700.htm#mortlock
* One year after the introduction of the 35-hour working week in France, the
unemployment rate in the county is dropping, economic growth is steady, and the
workforce seems happy.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13700.htm#france
* Conversely, the British government has conceded that their introduction of a 48-hour
week has had no impact on the long-hours culture of the British workforce.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13700.htm#british
* Dr Mary Mallon of Otago University wants to challenge assumptions that changes in
the world of work are temporary and that they are necessarily to be mourned.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13700.htm#portfolio
C R E D I T S
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ISSN No. 1172-6695
edited by Vivian Hutchinson for the Jobs Research Trust
P.O.Box 428, New Plymouth, New Zealand
phone 06-753-4434 fax 06-753-4430
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Secretary � Shirley Vickery
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