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Going further, the Government are gathering views on providing effective remedies against abuse of the rules on fire and rehire and collective redundancy. This is why we have launched a consultation to gain views on increasing the cap on the protective award for scenarios where employers have not complied with the collective redundancy rules and on adding interim relief to collective redundancy and fire-and-rehire scenarios. Increasing the protective award would mean that the small proportion of companies that flout the existing rules could end up paying significantly more per employee. It would also be likely to be much more costly for employers to buy off potential employment claims by offering employees settlement agreements.