Evening star., 1944-06-30
Guide to D. G. Job Control .
All Essential and Locally Needed Firms Are
In Priority Group 5 Pending Adjustments

Here's how Washington employers
will ask for the labor they need and
how job-seekers will be offered work
under the War Manpower Commits
sion's priority referral program,
which goes into effect tomorrow:
Employers
The program affects all employers.
Under the priority referral system,
all Washington establishments are
divided into six groups. with the first
four groups getting the first call
for available manpower from the
United States Employment Service
At the outset, all essential and local
ly needed establishments are in
group and all less essential estab-
lishments are In group 6. No estab-
lishments yet have been placed in
groups / to 4.
II an employer needs additional
help and has fewer people working
for him than he had between May is
and June /, 1914, he files an order
for additional workers with the
USES, giving his current number of
employees and his employment Cell
ing" (the highest number of workers
he had employed in the May IS
June period.
II an employer can't get as much
help as he needs that way or thinks
his ceiling is too low to meet cur
rent production or service schedules,
he files with the area VINO ere
quest for manpower allocation," or
form 63.
Priorities Committee Set Up.
II the Manpower Priorities Com
mittee, which passes on the employ
ers request, thinks he has q case, he
may 60 into groups l to 4 with a
better chance of getting the labor he
needs.
In order to be eligible for a rating
in groups ! to 4, an employer must
have found that the ordinary re-
cruiting efforts of USES or his own
efforts to get workers III he has been
given permission to recruit) have
failed to meet his essential needs
He must also be conforming to VINO
regulations, fully using his existing
labor force or take steps to do so
have a training program in opera
ton or specifically planned and
must be suffering a delay on cur
rent or approved future production or
service schedules attributable to
manpower shortages.
| All employers placed in Group
will have the same claim for man
power. If the supply of available
workers to fill their requirements is
small, the Manpower Priorities Com
mittee will decide how it is to be al
located among them. Establish
ments will go into one of the four
top groups on an individual rather
than an industry-wide basis.
| Employers May Advertise.
If an employer wants to advertise
for workers or interview those who
come to him seeking employment,
he may do so, but the cannot hire
them until they have gone to the
USES and been referred back to
him. Exceptions will be employers
who make hiring arrangements with
VINO or who get their workers
through union, school, professional
organization or private employment
agency which makes an. arrange
lment with VINO. No hiring ar
rangement has yet been made with
an individual firm.
II an employer has interviewed
q worker and sent him to USES
for final referral, he may or may
not get the worker back, depending
on whether the worker is offered
and accepts a higher priority job.
To get the worker back, however,
the employer must have an order
on file with the USES and be un-
der his employment ceiling. =, ~
Employers In Group 8. the less
essential establishments, obviously
have the least chance OF getting
manpower. Under certain circum-
stances, however, they can get
workers under the plan, particularly
women with children under Il, and
they can take their pick Of the