Member

It is the Government’s intention to end the unscrupulous use of fire and rehire. We are proposing technical amendments that allow the clause to work as intended to provide those protections. They ensure that, once the provisions of the Bill that make unfair dismissal a day one right come into force, the automatic unfair dismissal protections from unscrupulous fire and rehire practices will apply once the employee starts work. This brings the provision in line with other changes to unfair dismissal. These amendments also make it clear that the person will be protected from fire and rehire when they are dismissed and then rehired to do exactly the same job as they were doing previously, but on worse conditions.