European MPs have approved “daft” proposals for companies to help those worse affected by redundancies into new jobs, in a move that will intensify tension between the EU and Britain over unnecessary red tape.
The European Parliament report, drawn up by Spanish socialist MEP Alejandro Cercas, calls for new rules requiring any single company with more than 100 staff in one member state to take responsibility for retraining employees facing redundancy, and to create “redeployment and/or mobility cells”.
A company and its “dependent” companies with more than 500 staff would also be subject to the rules – branded “daft” by an employers’ group last year – under the proposals.
The companies would also have to provide “individualised professional guidance”, with paid time off to search for new work, as well as offering workers threatened with redundancy information “about the labour market, their rights and the conditions negotiated during the restructuring process.”
Choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor from
via ‘Companies making redundancies must find staff new jobs’, say European MPs – Telegraph.
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