Local MP Alan Mak has called for action to save summer jobs for young people.
He has backed new Conservative plans to give young people more flexibility over shift patterns and breaks and simplify restrictions on evening working, whilst protecting their education.
The party has already pledged to scrap unnecessary red tape permits required for businesses to employ young people, lift the two-hour Sunday working limit for under-16s, and allow them to work until 9pm should they choose to.
Mr Mak said Labour’s damaging Employment Rights Act was piling further pressure on seasonal businesses and making it harder for them to recruit.
The Conservatives will scrap Labour's job-destroying measures, abolish business rates for 250,000 retail, hospitality and leisure businesses, and introduce a Cheap Power Plan to cut business electricity bills by 20 per cent.
The crisis in youth unemployment was highlighted in a report from former Labour Minister Alan Milburn, in which he said early employment "helped young people build confidence, learn the habits of work and show employers what they could do".
But there has been a fall in the number of students aged 16 to 17 doing any work from 35% in 2006 to 19% today.
The outdated regulations - inherited from the European Union - place unnecessary restrictions on young people’s ability to work. These can be scrapped now Britain is outside the EU, giving young people greater freedom and opportunity to enter the workplace.
Under the Conservatives’ plan, 16 and 17-year-olds and employers would have greater flexibility over when breaks are taken, allowing them to be taken at any point during a shift.
Young people in full-time education or training would be able to work until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays during term-time and without restriction during holidays.
The required 48 consecutive hours off work in any seven-day period would also be reduced to 24 hours.
Mr Mak said: "We must make it easier for our local businesses to give young people that vital first step on to the career ladder.
"That’s why we need more flexibility for young people about when they can work and take breaks and scrap needless red tape and permits that make it harder for businesses to give young people a chance."
