Dismissed Employees (Compensation)

HC Deb 17 February 1960 vol 617 cc129-30W

Mr. Awbery

asked the Minister of Labour if he will take steps to make it a legal obligation on an employer to compensate a man who has been in his employ for twenty-five years or more

NUMBERS REGISTERING AS UNEMPLOYED AT EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES AND THE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT OFFICE IN THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH
Date	Men	Boys	Women	Girls	Total
December, 1955	…	…	860	34	733	31	1,658
December, 1956	…	…	1,070	26	780	40	1,916
December, 1957	…	…	1,551	71	824	49	2,495
December, 1958	…	…	2,099	139	931	30	3,199
December, 1959	…	…	1,833	110	953	58	2,954

and is dismissed on the grounds of redundancy.

Mr. Heath

I would refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to my hon. Friend, the Member for Heston and Isleworth (Mr. R. Harris) on 14th December last.