ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the response of manpower policy to the need for workers affected by technological forms of economic change to adapt to the new requirements of the labour market. The Contracts of Employment Act of 1963 ensured that reasonable periods of notice of termination of employment were given to employees with more than six months service, the period of notice increasing with length of service. The more serious consequences of technological change may, however, often be in firms which are not themselves undergoing such change, but which suffer the secondary effects of change in other firms, for example by being unable to innovate or otherwise keep up with their more progressive competitors. The changing labour market environment which manpower policies represent is relevant to the ease with which adjustments to technological change are likely to be effected. Both innovations are relevant to the adjustment to technological change.
