Making Work Pay: collective redundancy and fire and rehire

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.