HC Deb 21 October 1988 vol 138 cc1036-7W
Ms. Armstrong

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what advice he has given to organisations, including community task force, about redundancy payments for workers whose contracts are to be terminated because of the end of the community programme.

Mr. Nicholls

The Training Commission sent comprehensive instructions on redundancy payments to all its area offices in August 1988. These instructions explained that the commission would reimburse the employer's share of all statutory redundancy payments due to community programme employees by virtue of their employment on the programme (and earlier temporary employment programmes). Commission area offices were instructed to pass on this information to all their CP agents and sponsors.