Labor Minister Yigal Allon told Parliament today that Israel could look forward to full employment during the coming year but that Israel had both short-range and long-term problems of effective manpower utilization.
He said that the prospects of full employment were contingent on manufacturers responding to the Government’s policy of encouraging competitive imports by introduction of more efficient production, rather than by losing out to such competition and curtailing production. He said another factor in the projection of full employment was that Israel would not be shut out of foreign markets.
He emphasized, in discussing long-term prospects, that Israel was suffering from a lack of trained workers and that the number of young apprentices learning trades was dangerously low. He added that the speed of technological progress made it imperative that a study be undertaken now on what kind of manpower would be needed in the next five to ten years.
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