HC Deb 13 December 1956 vol 562 c70W
Mr. Hastings

asked the Minister of Labour if he will issue a directive to all employment exchanges that before redundant factory workers are discharged an officer of the local employment exchange shall attend at the factory to inform both management and workers of the vacancies existing in the area and elsewhere.

Mr. Iain Macleod

There is a well known and long-standing instruction to all employment exchanges to do this, by arrangement with the employer, as soon as they learn that workers are likely to be discharged.