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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


Select Committee
Unite
IPO0058 - Industrial policy

Written Evidence Mar. 05 2024

Inquiry: Industrial policy
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Business and Trade Committee (Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)

Found: Unite also organises in the community, enabling those who are not in employment to be part of our


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


Parliamentary Research
Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill [HL]: HL Bill 8 of 2023–24 - LLN-2024-0008
Feb. 21 2024

Found: Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill [HL]: HL Bill 8 of 2023–24


Bill Documents
21 Feb 2024 - Briefing papers
Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill [HL]: HL Bill 8
Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill [HL] 2023-24

Found: Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill [HL]: HL Bill 8


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 - Thu 14 Dec 2023

Mentions:
1: Johnson, Daniel (Lab - Edinburgh Southern) fire and rehire practices, to deliver a genuine living wage, and to ensure day one rights to sick pay - Speech Link
2: Brown, Keith (SNP - Clackmannanshire and Dunblane) Similarly, can she explain why the Labour Party was reportedly using fire-and-rehire practices two years - Speech Link
3: Lennon, Monica (Lab - Central Scotland) Today’s debate is not about keeping score, but I am clear that the rise of fire-and-rehire practices - Speech Link
4: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) caring economy; we also vehemently oppose the use of zero-hour contracts, fire-and-rehire practices - 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


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Business and Trade

Oct. 24 2023

Source Page: Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2023 to 2024
Document: Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2023 to 2024: annex A - summary of evidence (accessible version) (PDF)

Found: Fire and Rehire : Respondents raised concerns that there is a danger that fire and rehire style tactics


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Devolution of Employment Law - Tue 26 Sep 2023

Mentions:
1: Johnson, Daniel (Lab - Edinburgh Southern) It would ban compulsory zero-hours contracts, outlaw fire and rehire, give workers day 1 rights on sick - Speech Link
2: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) contracts and fire and rehire practices and the reinstatement of the employment and trade union rights - Speech Link
3: Clark, Katy (Lab - West Scotland) , introducing legislation to ban zero-hours contracts, outlawing fire and rehire, strengthening sick - Speech Link
4: McNair, Marie (SNP - Clydebank and Milngavie) MP saying:“To learn that our party are now using what can only be described as ‘fire and rehire tactics - Speech Link
5: Lochhead, Richard (SNP - Moray) legislating to ban fire and rehire. - Speech Link