Tag Archives: Employment Rights Bill
Will ‘Good’ Employers Welcome the Employment Rights Bill?
The Employment Rights Bill has now passed its House of Commons stages and is headed for the House of Lords. It has roughly doubled in size since it was first introduced in October 2024. Most of the amendments made are … Continue reading
More thoughts on “Fire and Rehire”
Back in November I wrote about the Employment Rights Bill and its proposal to ban the practice of ‘fire and rehire’. I suggested that the very narrow ‘financial difficulties’ exception that the Bill currently contains would present real problems for … Continue reading
Guaranteed hours – who will qualify?
How many hours do you have to work before you are no longer on a ‘low hours’ contract? The question is crucial to the right to guaranteed hours contained in the Employment Rights Bill currently at the Committee Stage in … Continue reading
Employment Rights Bill – increasing time limits for tribunal claims
The Employment Rights Bill is about to reach the stage when the Commons Committee considers proposed amendents. Some of these are proposed by the opposition but I don’t think we need to spend too much time on them. They are … Continue reading
Fire and Rehire – Unintended Consequences of the Employment Rights Bill
The Employment Rights Bill is about to enter into the part of the Parliamentary process where the Government will consider amendments. This is not something it needs to do in order to ensure the Bill is passed. With a huge … Continue reading
The Employment Rights Bill – Closing the ‘Woolworths’ Loophole
In my last post I was trying to make sense of 11 pages of densely-worded text in the Employment Rights Bill. For this post I have set myself the easier task of explaining the implications of removing just three words … Continue reading
The Employment Rights Bill – The Right to Guaranteed Hours
The right to guaranteed hours is the mechanism the Government has chosen to ‘ban’ zero hours contracts. It takes up 11 densely worded pages in the Employment Rights Bill inserting a new Chapter into Part 2A of the Employment Rights … Continue reading
The Employment Rights Bill – Unfair Dismissal as a Day-One Right.
One of the features of the Employment Rights Bill that has attracted particular attention is the abolition of the qualifying period for unfair dismissal making it a day-one right (see Schedule 2 of the Bill). This is something that a … Continue reading
Fire and Rehire under the Employment Rights Bill
There is a lot to say about the Employment Rights Bill which was introduced in Parliament earlier today. In many ways it really is transformative – its also long and detailed. My plan is not to write one big summary of … Continue reading
A Range of Reasonable Responses 