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Redundancy Payments: Businesses which have ceased trading (P120/2014): Ministerial comment

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A decision made on 8 July 2014:

Decision Reference: MD-S-2014-0088

Decision Summary Title :

DS - Comment on P.120/2014 Redundancy payments extension

Date of Decision Summary:

8 July 2014

Decision Summary Author:

Policy Principal

Decision Summary:

Public or Exempt?

Public

Type of Report:

Oral or Written?

Written

Person Giving

Oral Report:

N/A

Written Report

Title :

WR - Comment on P.120/2014 Redundancy payments extension

Date of Written Report:

8 July 2014

Written Report Author:

Policy Principal

Written Report :

Public or Exempt?

 

Public

Subject: Minister’s Comment on P.120/2014 – Redundancy payments extension

Decision(s): The Minister decided to present to the States a Comment in response to the Proposition P.120/2014 – Redundancy payments extension

Reason(s) for Decision:  Deputy Southern’s Proposition P.120/2014 asks the States to request that the Minister extends the insolvency scheme so that the Minister can, on a discretionary basis, pay insolvency benefit to employees where their former employer has ceased trading but has not yet been declared insolvent.   The Comment sets out the Minister’s response to the Proposition.

Resource Implications: None

Action required:  Policy Principal to request the Greffier of the States to arrange for the Comment to be presented to the States as soon as possible given that the States decided on 8 July 2014 to debate the Proposition at that sitting instead of the sitting of 14 July.

Signature:

 

 

Position:

Minister

 

Date Signed:

 

 

Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):

 

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