Suspend five-year rule, urge protest group

Monday 23rd February 2004, 12:00AM GMT.

THE ‘Black Tuesday’ group have called for the immediate suspension of the five-year rule.

They claim it is stifling the economy.Under the Regulation of Undertakings and Development Law employers need special permission to take on staff who have been here for less than five years.

The collective of businessmen who organised the Budget Day protest say that Finance and Economics are rushing into introducing new taxes when they should be helping the economy and cutting States spending first.Spokesman Roger Trower said: ‘We want the five-year rule suspended immediately.

It must go.

We have 750 people unemployed, so we need to create jobs and we need to be helped to grow the economy.

Jersey has to be open for business.’

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