Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jim Sheridan and Mark Prisk

Thursday 2nd February 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Prisk]

I am glad to say that we are capable of doing both. Unlike the last, Labour Government, we are tackling finance. It is sad that the Opposition are not listening to small businesses. We are, and we are working to make sure we help them.

[Jim Sheridan (Paisley and Renfrewshire North) (Lab)]

As part of the red tape challenge, will the Minister look again at the regulations that deny employees the right to proper compensation or redundancy payments if their workplace has fewer than 20 people, as is the case for ex-employees of Woolworths? That is regulation that successive Governments have failed to address.