Relations to the United States Employment Service
The United States Employment Service is a national system of recruiting bureaus operated by the Department of Labor of the United States Government, for the purpose of organizing the general relations of supply and demand on the labor market, and of distributing the available supply of wage earners as efficiently as possible to those localities and to those employers where they are in greatest demand.
The employment manager is the representative of private business, which has the task of selecting such labor as it needs and of utilizing it to the best possible advantage in the actual work of production. If, therefore, the Government assists in finding men for industry, it is the function of the employment manager to use those men with intelligence, to take such steps as are appropriate for private industry to maintain their productive efficiency unimpaired, and to see that no condition which can be remedied throws them upon the labor market to be placed again.
By the new system the employer is brought into contact with public officers, who seek a justification of his demands. It is necessary for employers to state accurately what types of skill they require—a thing which requires job analysis. It is necessary to give advance notice of wants; for this a labor schedule is needed. It is certainly no recommendation for an employer, in the eyes of his community labor board, if he must admit that he still continues the antiquated hiring-and-firing process, or that he has a high labor turnover, or that he has no department charged with responsibility for maintaining proper working conditions.