Question follow-through · 25503
Treasury: Unfair Dismissal
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his 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.
29 Jan 2025
Answer published
HMT staff must have completed 2 years’ service to be protected against unfair dismissal. The new Employment Rights Bill will amend the law on unfair dismissal to protect staff from their first working day. HMT will implement this legislative change when i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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