Question follow-through · 25488
Department for Education: Unfair Dismissal
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 31 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Jan 2025
Answer published
The department has appropriate policies and processes in place to ensure employees are treated fairly from day one of their employment.All dismissals are handled in line with current legislation and appropriate Codes of Practice. Where an employee feels t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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