Where Europe is becoming the unemployment capital of the world with an average of 11.3% and Spain and Greece fighting to see who can reach 30% for unemployment and over 60% for youth unemployment, a socialist Spanish MEP has introduced a proposal that has been approved by MEPs and they are now urging the EU commission to enact a law as soon as possible.
In Spain when you make somebody redundant you have to pay 45 days pay for every year of service. Where many companies in Spain are having a hard time and having to make people redundant the cost of this is pushing them over the edge into liquidation, so they all loose their jobs. One of the reasons unemployment is so high in Spain is nobody wants to employ people due to the cost and potential liabilities involved.
So this very stupid Spanish socialist MEP had decided the best solution is to make it compulsory for companies that are making somebody redundant, they must find them a new job, including paying for retraining, counselling where they might be depressed over being made redundant, coaching on CV writing and job interview techniques etc, etc.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/9803629/Companies-making-redundancies-must-find-staff-new-jobs-say-European-MPs.htmlThis is why we need to leave this EU lunacy and why despite all of the Europhile fanatic scare stories, investment and jobs will flood into the UK due to once we are free of the EU, supply-side reforms making us much more competitive. This is why Turkey, being on the EU's doorstep is doing well with similar wages to Eastern Europe without all of the EU industrial and social laws and directives.
Companies will go where costs are competitive without excessive red tape.