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Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) and rehiretactics. - Speech Link
2: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) The particular case and example is P&O Ferries, which was not so much fire and rehire, but just fire - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con - Life peer) treated them as fire and rehire cases. - Speech Link
4: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) should not be imposed under the threat of fire and rehire. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 09 Jul 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Katrina Murray (Lab - Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch) I have previously praised in this Chamber the efforts of the fire and rescue service in responding to - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) French to review their laws and tactics on the north coast in order to take more effective action. - Speech Link
3: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) I am proud that the Labour Government are banning fire and rehire. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 03 Jul 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Leigh Ingham (Lab - Stafford) the villages, teaching assistants will be on strike because they are subject to fire and rehire practices - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I am really sorry to hear that fire and rehire is still happening across the country, particularly in - Speech Link
3: Euan Stainbank (Lab - Falkirk) unacceptable and often criminal tactics. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage - Wed 21 May 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None We can acknowledge that fire and rehire is not always the right answer, and responsible businesses understand - Speech Link
2: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) Although it is crucial to clamp down on unfair and predatory fire-and-rehire tactics, as addressed by - Speech Link
3: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) This Government are absolutely clear that the use of unscrupulous fire-and-rehire practices must end. - Speech Link
4: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) Fire and rehire should be the final resort and remedy. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
2nd reading - Thu 27 Mar 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) failing to agree to a variation of contract, more commonly known as “fire and rehire”. - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) I will focus on one: the provisions relating to fire and rehire. - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (XB - Excepted Hereditary) There are some positives—the rules on fire and rehire, and bereavement leave, are just two examples—but - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 13 Mar 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) The pinnacle of their ambition was to ban pedicabs in London, and they are not doing much better now, - Speech Link
2: Steve Race (Lab - Exeter) Yesterday, I was proud to vote for the Employment Rights Bill, which—among other actions—will ban fire - Speech Link
3: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) We want to end fire and rehire for good, and I am surprised that the Conservative party voted against - Speech Link
4: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) We all support the amazing work of our emergency services—fire, police, ambulance and many others—and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage (day 2) - Wed 12 Mar 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Gregor Poynton (Lab - Livingston) the good businesses that contribute to good employment and sustainable growth, and it is right and proper - Speech Link
2: Becky Gittins (Lab - Clwyd East) fire and rehire, establishing bereavement leave, increasing protections from sexual harassment, introducing - Speech Link
3: Jo White (Lab - Bassetlaw) We need to end the zero-hour contracts and the trickery of fire and rehire; deliver day one protections - Speech Link
4: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) We all remember how in 2021 she herself was a victim of fire and rehire by a bad boss. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage (day 1) continued - Tue 11 Mar 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Steve Witherden (Lab - Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr) welcome the Bill, which will drastically limit the exploitative use of fire and rehire. - Speech Link
2: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) the unacceptable practice of fire and rehire. - Speech Link
3: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab - Poole) Amendment 319 would treat workers dismissed under fire and rehire as having been made redundant and would - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 23 Jan 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: James Frith (Lab - Bury North) , sudden price changes, premature bailiff actions and non-compliance with fire safety and accessibility - Speech Link
2: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) employment can mean that they owe money or are trapped and unable to claim pensions, due to legislative - Speech Link
3: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) We have taken very quick action to ban zombie knives and dangerous ninja swords. - Speech Link
4: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab - Poole) Friend confirm that our Employment Rights Bill will ensure that employers must consult and inform their - Speech Link
5: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) and rehire and to support workers in the difficult circumstances that he describes. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Employment Rights Bill (Eleventh sitting)
Committee stage: 11th Sitting - Thu 12 Dec 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee Central) Over recent years, there have been several egregious examples of fire and rehire from large and very - Speech Link
2: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee Central) : we want to end fire and rehire. - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) and rehire tactics to continue. - Speech Link