It is acknowledged that this legislation is an attempt on the part of the Government to increase the statutory redundancy payment from low levels to two weeks pay per year of service. A worrying feature of the Bill, however, is that there has been no attempt to include provisions which place an obligation on an employer to see if there is any suitable employment for an employee in the enterprise before that employee is declared redundant. Furthermore, there is no provision for a period of retraining for the employee prior to the redundancy taking effect. In other words, both management and trade unions should have some obligation in the workplace, not only to look after an employee's financial needs as best they can but also to look after his or her future so that they are kept up to date with all technological change.