12 October 2012
Sandra Osborne MP Slams Government’s Latest
War on Workers
Sandra Osborne MP has attacked Conservative Party plans, unveiled during their Party conference, to allow employees to trade away their employment rights for shares.
Sandra said:
‘The Chancellor’s plans for employees to give up the right to flexible working, redundancy pay and the ability to claim unfair dismissal in exchange for shares is shameful. This is morally wrong and could create an ‘underclass’ of employees.
‘When it comes down to employment rights, the Tory Government seems intent on taking us back to the Victorian era ’
Sandra also attacked the Prime Minister’s lack of action on the economy. She said:
‘In the Prime Minister’s speech to his Conference, there was no mention of the double-dip recession and no help was offered to the thousands of people in my constituency and up and down the country who want to work but cannot find a job. The reality is that he doesn’t want to admit that his economic policies have failed and that it is his policies that are the barrier to people finding work’.
Sandra added:
‘I am supporting Labour’s plans for jobs and growth which includes a £2 billion tax on bank bonuses to fund youth jobs and bringing forward long term investment projects to help get people back to work and strengthen the economy, which is an issue I recently called for on the floor of the Commons’.
Sandra Osborne MP Slams Government’s Latest
War on Workers
Sandra Osborne MP has attacked Conservative Party plans, unveiled during their Party conference, to allow employees to trade away their employment rights for shares.
Sandra said:
‘The Chancellor’s plans for employees to give up the right to flexible working, redundancy pay and the ability to claim unfair dismissal in exchange for shares is shameful. This is morally wrong and could create an ‘underclass’ of employees.
‘When it comes down to employment rights, the Tory Government seems intent on taking us back to the Victorian era ’
Sandra also attacked the Prime Minister’s lack of action on the economy. She said:
‘In the Prime Minister’s speech to his Conference, there was no mention of the double-dip recession and no help was offered to the thousands of people in my constituency and up and down the country who want to work but cannot find a job. The reality is that he doesn’t want to admit that his economic policies have failed and that it is his policies that are the barrier to people finding work’.
Sandra added:
‘I am supporting Labour’s plans for jobs and growth which includes a £2 billion tax on bank bonuses to fund youth jobs and bringing forward long term investment projects to help get people back to work and strengthen the economy, which is an issue I recently called for on the floor of the Commons’.