Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 26. October 3 1977

Vacation Work, Christmas 1977 — Look Now Earn Later

Vacation Work, Christmas 1977

Look Now Earn Later

We expect the coming Christmas vacation period to be a particularly difficult one for vacation work, certainly more difficult than last year (and last year was bad) as the unemployment and special work statistics show more people are out of work than at this time last year.

If you are counting on a well paid holiday job to raise funds for study next year, we think it will be essential for you to do some early planning. We also think you could take some early action, and we suggest you do the following:
1. Contact the employer who gave you a job last year. Do it soon. He might be able to fix a date for you to start work there again. But, if you can't do this, or if he has no jobs—
2. If you are not able to find a job, when your last examination has finished, go to the Department of Labour (District Office, Tory St) and register for work. What will happen then is that—
a) They will interview you, and prepare a registration card.
b) They will ask for your student I.D. (in the past they have had some problems with fake students).
c) They will stamp your registration card with the date on which you reported to them.
d) They will send you on to the Social Welfare Department to fill in more forms.
3. The regulations require you to prove that you are looking for work, by collecting signatures of employers who could not give you a job. The Department of Labour will—
a) Try to get you a regular vacation job.
b) Send you to the Careers Advisory Board, 6 Kelburn Parade, to look for work through the Vacation Work Service there.
c) try to place you on relief work.
4. This procedure will get you work, but if you fail—
a) You will at least have the written evidence to show you tried.
b) You will be paid an unemployment benefit, after a short delay.
c) The benefit will be paid from the date you registered with the Department of Labour.
5. There will be a limited number of vacation jobs abailable from the Careers Advisory Board office, 6 Kelburn Parade, from about the 20th of October

I. H. Boyd,

Director of Student Welfare Services.