Asked by: Alison Griffiths (Conservative - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.
Answered by Michael Shanks - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
All dismissals are handled in line with current legislation and appropriate Codes of Practice. Where an employee feels they may have been unfairly dismissed, appropriate internal appeal routes may be instigated.
Where an employee is unable to solve a problem internally they may be able to go to an employment tribunal to claim unfair dismissal, as set out in legislation.
This position will be reviewed when unfair dismissal rights are updated in line with the Employment Rights Bill when this comes into effect.