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Article: MP says job centre must access staff facing job losses
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- January 28, 2009
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ADMINISTRATORS should be legally bound to let Jobcentre Plus
staff into firms where there are planned redundancies, a North-East
MP said.
Sedgefield MP Phil Wilson said administrators at several
companies in the region would not let the centre's staff in.
He said: "It is so important.
Every bit of research shows that the sooner people who are made
redundant or lose their jobs make contact with Jobcentre Plus and
other agencies the better their chances of getting into work."
However Electrolux, which was not in administration, worked with
Jobcentre Plus and other agencies as soon as itannounced, in
December 2007, that it was closing its factory in Spennymoor. The
majority of workers were back ...