Dan Peters Izzy Lepone 08 September 2025

Fire and rehire ban 'burned out shell'

Union Unite has described the Government's commitment to ban the practice of fire and rehiring workers as ‘now nothing more than a burned out shell'.

The Government has amended its Employment Rights Bill, allowing councils with financial problems that are placed under intervention to be exempt from a ban on sacking and then rehiring employees.

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