News: MacShane: Hire or train a Rotherham worker in 2010
Rotherham MP Denis MacShane has issued a New Year appeal to employers in Rotherham urging them to give priority to hiring local men or women in 2010.
The MP highlighted the £2,500 on offer to employers to recruit and train 18-24 year olds who must be in receipt of unemployment benefits.
MacShane said: "I hope that in 2010 every Rotherham business, big or small, can reach out to the Rotherham community and give local people a job if they have the skills and motivation.
"The Government has offered grants of up to £2,500 to recruit or train young workers between the age of 18 and 24 but there are men and women of all ages who want to work if they are given a chance."
The MP raised the need to support more local employment in the House of Commons just before the Christmas recess. He told Labour Deputy Leader, Harriet Harman, to hold a special Commons debate on the need to encourage Yorkshire employers to provide more work for local people.
Speaking in the Commons MacShane said: "People from Toyoda Gosei, the Japanese car parts factory in my constituency, wrote to me recently saying that they had 30 different nationalities employed there.
"Could we have a debate on hiring practices, because although I am sure that the firms hiring practices are completely non-discriminatory, there is widespread concern in South Yorkshire that employers are perhaps not giving a fair crack to local Yorkshire men and women, and we need to discuss with employers how to bring more of the local work force into active work?"
In her reply Ms Harman stated: "It is important not only that we have training, high skill levels and the appropriate skill levels in the local community for the jobs that are available, but that those jobs are made available through the jobcentres and that the regional development agencies work with employers to make sure that agencies that do not just choose workers from abroad are used. My right hon. Friend makes an important point and it is being taken forward."
The MP has urged the local Chamber of Commerce to draw up an employment audit so that all its member firms can see what they can do to help get more Rotherham council tax-payers into work.
He added: "This is not about excluding anyone and Rotherham is proud of being open to foreign investment such as Toyoda Gosei brought to the Borough. You cannot say yes to foreign companies investing in the UK and then demand that race or nationality criteria should determine who gets work. But that said, it is important for all Rotherham employers to be sensitive to community feelings and to the sense that sometime local workers to do not get a fair crack of the employment whip."
The MP highlighted the £2,500 on offer to employers to recruit and train 18-24 year olds who must be in receipt of unemployment benefits.
MacShane said: "I hope that in 2010 every Rotherham business, big or small, can reach out to the Rotherham community and give local people a job if they have the skills and motivation.
"The Government has offered grants of up to £2,500 to recruit or train young workers between the age of 18 and 24 but there are men and women of all ages who want to work if they are given a chance."
The MP raised the need to support more local employment in the House of Commons just before the Christmas recess. He told Labour Deputy Leader, Harriet Harman, to hold a special Commons debate on the need to encourage Yorkshire employers to provide more work for local people.
Speaking in the Commons MacShane said: "People from Toyoda Gosei, the Japanese car parts factory in my constituency, wrote to me recently saying that they had 30 different nationalities employed there.
"Could we have a debate on hiring practices, because although I am sure that the firms hiring practices are completely non-discriminatory, there is widespread concern in South Yorkshire that employers are perhaps not giving a fair crack to local Yorkshire men and women, and we need to discuss with employers how to bring more of the local work force into active work?"
In her reply Ms Harman stated: "It is important not only that we have training, high skill levels and the appropriate skill levels in the local community for the jobs that are available, but that those jobs are made available through the jobcentres and that the regional development agencies work with employers to make sure that agencies that do not just choose workers from abroad are used. My right hon. Friend makes an important point and it is being taken forward."
The MP has urged the local Chamber of Commerce to draw up an employment audit so that all its member firms can see what they can do to help get more Rotherham council tax-payers into work.
He added: "This is not about excluding anyone and Rotherham is proud of being open to foreign investment such as Toyoda Gosei brought to the Borough. You cannot say yes to foreign companies investing in the UK and then demand that race or nationality criteria should determine who gets work. But that said, it is important for all Rotherham employers to be sensitive to community feelings and to the sense that sometime local workers to do not get a fair crack of the employment whip."
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