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General Committees
Draft Code of Practice on Dismissal and Re-Engagement - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) commonplace use of those tactics. - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) Gentleman has a private Member’s Bill that would ban fire and rehire—that is the position that he has - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) were elements relating to fire and rehire. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 01 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Woodley (Lab - Life peer) It does not ban fire and rehire completely and utterly in all circumstances. - Speech Link
2: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) Businesses use fire and rehire tactics for the simple reason that, in Britain today, sacking workers - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) , as my noble friend stressed and re-stressed, the Bill does not ban fire and rehire outright. - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) It is not a blanket ban on fire and rehire; it is targeted exactly at abusive tactics. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) His Majesty’s inspectorate of constabulary and fire and rescue services has found that forces have made - Speech Link
2: Dan Carden (Lab - Liverpool, Walton) to live in a state of limbo, to pack up belongings and to leave support networks and employment at immense - Speech Link
3: Gerald Jones (Lab - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) and rehire” practices in the Gracious Speech, especially since those tactics were used by companies - Speech Link
4: Darren Henry (Con - Broxtowe) Those things are important and can be transferred to many forms of employment, particularly policing.The - Speech Link
5: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) crime, and the failure to ban Rambo and zombie knives. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Ian Lavery (Lab - Wansbeck) to protect people in employment? - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) Will employment law be devolved, and will immigration law be devolved? - Speech Link
3: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) a ban on tactics such as branding and sweet flavourings to market vapes to children. - Speech Link
4: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) to employment, but the truth is that we are the only country in the G7 with an employment rate that - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
P&O Ferries Redundancies - Tue 28 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) same page in terms of making sure the bar is high on the requirements for anybody using these kinds of tactics - Speech Link
2: Andy McDonald (LAB - Middlesbrough) Just briefly, on fire and rehire, we have to be clear about what we are talking about here. - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) Members will remember the case of British Airways, which threatened fire and rehire during the pandemic - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 16 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Vicky Foxcroft (LAB - Lewisham, Deptford) the fire engines and be straight there. - Speech Link
2: Clive Lewis (LAB - Norwich South) , with a Bill that gives a green light to the practitioners of fire and rehire, poverty pay and a race - Speech Link
3: Cat Smith (LAB - Lancaster and Fleetwood) This Government have come forward with no employment Bill that could actually outlaw fire and rehire - Speech Link
4: Gerald Jones (LAB - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) and rehire tactics and promoting collective bargaining.As a Labour Member of Parliament, I am proud - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Scottish Independence and the Scottish Economy - Wed 02 Nov 2022
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Ian Murray (LAB - Edinburgh South) as any nationalist sitting by my side here.Who have the Conservative party turned to to put out the fire - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) deprivation; and people forced into the gig economy with no protections or employment rights, forced - Speech Link
3: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) The Scottish National party still has the time to get out of the fire and ensure that Holyrood passes - Speech Link
4: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) and rehire tactics to sack an entire workforce, no asylum seeker tanked the economy, and no asylum seeker - Speech Link
5: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) Government delayed a ban, with the new Minister for Women and Equalities reported as wanting to review - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Employment Law: Devolution to Scotland - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) workers would have the right to protection against vile tactics such as fire and rehire and unpaid trial - Speech Link
2: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) leave as day one employment rights, outlawing fire and rehire tactics and bringing in properly funded - Speech Link
3: Mhairi Black (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire South) fire and rehire Bill talked out by the Government. - Speech Link
4: Jane Hunt (CON - Loughborough) re-engagement—so-called fire and rehire tactics. - Speech Link
5: Jane Hunt (CON - Loughborough) Imposing a ban would not be appropriate because in some situations fire and rehire can play a valid role - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rail Strikes - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Alec Shelbrooke (CON - Elmet and Rothwell) everybody in employment. - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) and rehire secured by the hon. - Speech Link
3: Robert Largan (CON - High Peak) really think the RMT has got its tactics and timing very badly wrong. - Speech Link
4: Ian Byrne (LAB - Liverpool, West Derby) Why did we not see the same urgency in calling out British Gas for using fire and rehire? - Speech Link
5: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) been in a debate in Westminster Hall, which I managed to secure, on fire and rehire. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fire and Rehire Tactics - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Charlotte Nichols (LAB - Warrington North) before the Government finally ban fire and rehire. - Speech Link
2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) We therefore need an employment Bill, and we need to ban fire and rehire. - Speech Link
3: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) There is no Bill to ban fire and rehire. - Speech Link