§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Employment what redundancies were notified to his Department in each of the regional council areas of Scotland in the months of March and April.
§ Mr. GoldingThe numbers of proposed dismissals notified to my Department in each of the regional council areas of Scotland under Section 100 of the Employment Protection Act since it was implemented on 8th March this year are given in the table below. Under the transitional provisions, where an employer has commenced consultations about proposed redundancies with independent recognised unions before 8th March he must notify the Department before dismissals take place, but the minimum notification periods do not apply.
as unemployed in the Northern Region. The statistics available for this month do not indicate how many of these were young persons. This information is at present available only for January and July when detailed age analyses are made. At January 1976, 72,575 males and 21,508 females were unemployed. Of these, 18,150 (9,714 males and 8,436 females) were under 20 years of age.
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