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The Financial Times and The Times quote Dan Pollard on the Employment Rights Bill

The government yesterday (10 October) published its employment rights bill, encompassing 28 individual reforms to boost pay and productivity and improve security for workers, marking the first in a series of phases of its delivery of its Plan to Make Work Pay.

A provision giving workers protection against unfair dismissal from their first day in a job is said to be the most significant element.

Dan Pollard, Employment Partner, shares his thoughts with The Financial Times and The Times:

The most significant of the changes is the end to the unfair dismissal qualifying service limit. Currently a third of the workforce do not have two years’ service ... The change gave a third of the workforce dismissal protection overnight. This is possibly the most radical change to unfair dismissal law since it was first introduced in 1971.

Read the full piece in The Financial Times here.

Consultation will follow on the level of protection employees have during probation and the duration of the probationary period.    

Related coverage:

The Times, Personnel Today (1), Personnel Today (2), People Management , Law 360

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