A Bill to prohibit employers dismissing employees and subsequently re-employing them for the purpose of diminishing the terms and conditions of employment; and for connected purposes.
House of Commons
4 May 2021
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The Employment (Dismissal and Re-employment) Bill would ban employers from firing an employee and then re-hiring them on worse terms and conditions simply to cut pay, benefits or working conditions. It targets 'fire-and-rehire' practices and aims to protect workers from being forced into worse deals after dismissal. The bill would make such tactics illegal and set out what is prohibited.
The bill has completed its first reading in the Commons and is now at the second reading stage in the same House.
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9 Jun 2020
The Order for Second Reading of this Bill on Friday 8 January 2021 was read and discharged and the Bill has been withdrawn.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
