GOVERNMENT MUST DO EVERYTHING TO SECURE THREATENED CORUS JOBS
May 8, 2009 12:00 AM
Commenting on news that 2,000 jobs are threatened at the steelmakers, Corus, in Teesside, Fiona Hall Lib Dem Member of the European Parliament for the North East said:
"This is terrible news for Teesside. I hope the Government will do everything they can to seek a way forward to secure the threatened jobs.
"If the worst comes to the worst and jobs are indeed lost, I trust the Government will change its mind and support an application to the European Globalisation Fund in order to fund skills training for those who have lost their jobs."
The European Globalisation Fund was originally set up to cover jobs lost through globalisation, but MEPs voted in the European Parliament last week to expand this to cover the recession also.
The number of possible job losses at Corus is four times the number needed to apply for the Globalisation Fund. Companies set to loose more than 500 jobs are able to apply, but Ministers at the Department for Work and Pensions are said to be lukewarm about using the fund.
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