Consultation outcome

Making Work Pay: collective redundancy and fire and rehire

From:
Department for Business and Trade
Published
21 October 2024
Last updated
4 March 2025 — See all updates
This consultation has concluded

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Government response to the consultation on strengthening remedies against abuse of rules on collective redundancy and fire and rehire

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Detail of outcome

The consultation received 195 responses from a wide range of stakeholders, which are summarised in this document. The response sets out the government’s position on the issue and next steps.

Original consultation

Summary

The government is seeking views on strengthening remedies against abuse of rules on collective redundancy and fire and rehire.

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Consultation description

The government is seeking views on measures to strengthen the collective redundancy framework and protections for employees against fire and rehire practices.

For the collective redundancy framework, the government is seeking views on the proposal to increase the maximum period of the protective award that a tribunal can award.

The government is considering 2 options:

  • increase the protective award that a tribunal can award from 90 to 180 days
  • remove the cap on the protective award entirely

The government is also seeking views on whether interim relief should be available to employees who bring claims for the protective award.

For fire and rehire practices, the government is seeking views on whether interim relief should be available to employees who are bringing an unfair dismissal claim under the new right which will be introduced by the Employment Rights Bill (subject to Parliament’s approval).

See the public consultations privacy notice.

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Consultation on strengthening remedies against abuse of rules on collective redundancy and fire and rehire (web accessible version)

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Consultation on strengthening remedies against abuse of rules on collective redundancy and fire and rehire (PDF version)

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Updates to this page

Published 21 October 2024
Last updated 4 March 2025

  1. Government response published.

  2. Web accessible version of the consultation document added.

  3. First published.

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