DAY ONE EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS BEEN ABANDONED

We have previously reported that the Employment Rights Bill would give all employees day one employment rights to not be unfairly dismissed.  Currently in most circumstances it is necessary to have two years complete and continuous service with an employer to be eligible to claim unfair dismissal.

In order to get the Employment Rights Bill through to Royal Assent the Government has decided to proceed with what it has described as a “compromise” whereby the current two year qualifying period will be reduced to six months.  There will still be situations where no qualifying period is required at all, for example automatically unfair dismissals.

It has also been reported that the compensatory award cap (currently a year’s gross salary or £118,223, which ever is lower) is to be “lifted”.  It is unclear whether this means increased or removed entirely.  Therefore, further information is awaited.

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