Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 March 1992.
John McFall
, Dumbarton
12:00,
10 March 1992
The Minister is aware that those who work for 16 hours or less do not have the right to itemised pay statements unless they have worked for five years and that those who work less than eight hours have no right to them at all. Employees are scared to enforce their rights because if they did they would be unfairly dismissed. Should not every employee have that right and should not the Government therefore scrap the two-year rule, or are the Government determined to keep up their sweat-shop policies, contrary to what is happening in the rest of Europe?
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