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Today (Thursday) in Parliament, John Cryer called for a debate on the Government’s plans to make it easier to sack workers.
“I’ve asked the Government to think again. In the current climate it’s important that experienced workers are in work,” he said. “I have many constituents who are in insecure jobs with little protection – to make it even easier to sack them is unacceptable.”
Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable, has laid out Government proposals to reform the employment tribunal system. The qualifying period for unfair dismissal claims will be raised from one year to two years. Employees may also be charged for going to a tribunal.
“Disputes in the workplace cost time and money, can affect morale, reduce productivity and hold back businesses.” said Vince Cable.
Later in the year Justice Secretary Ken Clarke proposes to introduce fees for employment tribunals.
“I will also be consulting separately later in the year on the detail of introducing fees for Employment Tribunal cases, to ensure that people who use the system contribute towards its cost.” Said Ken Clarke
“Rather than focusing on poor employment practices the Government would prefer to place the blame on workers seeking justice,” said the Leyton and Wanstead MP.
“At a time when people are facing uncertainty over their jobs, perhaps the Government’s efforts would be better spent, investing, encouraging industry to invest, and providing help to small businesses, rather than attacking workers. ‘We are all in this together’ but not if you work for someone else apparently.”
“I’d urge my people to reply to the Government’s consultation.” http://www.bis.gov.uk/Consultations/resolving-workplace-disputes?cat=open
“Tell Vince Cable to think again and protect working peoples rights.”
John Cryer MP speaking to the EMA rally
The government’s cut of the Education Maintenance Allowance is a “betrayal” of the young people of east London, Leyton and Wanstead MP John Cryer told a rally of students in Westminster last week.
John said “I represent hundreds of students and their families who depend on the EMA to stay in education. The government has even said that students who currently get the allowance will lose it – it will not just be future students.”
“So this really is the most vicious kind of cut. Sixty three per cent of students at Leyton Sixth Form College receive the EMA – about 1,200 are on the top rate of £30 per week,” he told around 140 students who came to the House of Commons to lobby MPs.
John Cryer also spoke in the House of Commons later on the same day in opposition to the cut.
The EMA was introduced by the last Labour government and is means-tested – only students from households on less than £20,000 a year receive the allowance.
Leyton Sixth Form has among the highest number of students who receive the EMA in the country – only 38 colleges in Britain have more than 60 per cent of students in receipt of the allowance.
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/wfnews/8809815.LEYTONSTONE__MP_criticises_Free_School_bid/
Cllrs Shabana Qadir and Gerry Lyons outside Leyton Clinic
John Cryer MP will be speaking at a meeting at the Seddon Centre, Clyde Place, Leyton, on the Beaumont Estate on February 2nd at 7pm. The meeting is part of the campaign to save Leyton Green Clinic which is under threat of closure. The clinic is on Leyton Green Road, almost next door to the bus garage.
John says “This Health Clinic has served the residents of Leyton since 1932. Many of the people who use it have no other facilities and Leyton is among the poorest 10 per cent of wards in the entire country.”
Waltham Forest Court was under threat from Coalition cuts
John said: “It’s great news because if the court had gone it would have meant that the probation service would have been completely removed from Waltham Forest as well.
It would also have led to enormous pressure on courts in Stratford and Bow, and it would have been far more difficult to manage cases with people having to travel an awful lot further.”
