Manpower Services Commission — The first year Available to Purchase

The Manpower Services Commission has now been operating for just over a year. In that time it has assumed responsibility for the employment and training services previously provided directly by the Department of Employment. It has expressed its views on a number of issues affecting the labour market, industrial training and education, and has considered its future role. Contingency plans for high unemployment and manpower implications of offshore oil have also occupied the Commission's attention in a busy programme which included seventeen meetings of the full Commission during 1974. The MSC describes itself as ‘a new approach’. Is this claim justified?