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Cabinet Office: Unfair Dismissal

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
23 Jan 2025
Answer
29 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.

  2. 23 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Unfair dismissal in the UK is governed by the Employment Rights Act 1996 and other legislation, which stipulates that you must have worked for your employer for a minimum period before you qualify for the right to claim unfair dismissal at a tribunal. An ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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