{"id":61617,"date":"2015-09-17T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4be854ab112976f34cfb0023f26e4f43"},"modified":"2015-09-17T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:20:00","slug":"government-response-government-response-to-report-into-closure-of-city-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=61617","title":{"rendered":"Government response: Government response to report into closure of City Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>City Link went into administration on 24 December 2014 affecting around 2,700 employees, self employed drivers and firms providing services to the company on a sub-contractor basis.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the closure on employment was looked at in a joint Business, Innovation and Skills and Scottish Affairs Committee report published in March 2015. This report made a number of recommendations covering improving communication with staff and contractors, tackling \u2019bogus self employment\u2019 and giving a preference to all workers to increase their payments in insolvency following a company failure.<\/p>\n<p>The Government response replies to those recommendations<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"attachment inline\" id=\"attachment_1202051\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/461403\/citylink-response.pdf\">Government response to the joint House of Commons committees&#8217; report on the impact of the closure of City Link on employment<\/a><br \/>\n  (<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">142KB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">14 pages<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201415\/cmselect\/cmbis\/928\/928.pdf\">Impact of the closure of City Link on Employment<\/a><br \/>\nFirst Joint Report of the Business, Innovation and Skills and Scottish Affairs Committees<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government response to the Select Committee report into the employment impact of the closure of City Link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}