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One of Labour’s flagship policies has been the removal of the qualifying period, granting all employees protection from unfair dismissal from their first day of employment

Reform of the qualifying period for an unfair dismissal claim – day one or not day one?

Since their election success, all eyes have been on Labour’s proposed employment law reforms. One of the most far-reaching would be the proposed abolition of the two-year qualifying period for unfair dismissal claims.

Lauren Kilbride, Solicitor in Rothera Bray's Employment Law department
Natalie Abbott, Employment Law Partner at Rothera Bray