HC Deb 07 December 1977 vol 940 c1404

Mr. David Mitchell on behalf of Mr. John Osborn, supported by Mr. David Mitchell, Mr. John Cope, Mr. John Love-ridge, Mr. Esmond Bulmer, Mr. John Wakeham, Mr. Richard Page, Mr. George Younger, Mr. Robert Rhodes James and Mr. Andrew MacKay, presented a Bill to assist in the creation of jobs by small businesses and others by providing for Industrial Tribunals to hold preliminary hearings in respect of claims for unfair dismissal and to exclude employment of less than one year from certain provisions of the law relating to employment protection: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 24th February and to be printed [Bill 18].