Bosses have been told employment rights currently going through Parliament are the ‘most radical changes in a generation’.
In an update on the changes at ABTA's Travel Law event on Monday (12 May), an expert warned the changes included taking all reasonable steps to ensure staff safety at overseas events, and 'getting recruitment right'.
DMH Stallard Partner Rebecca Thornley-Gibson told delegates that changes to the Employment Rights Bill (ERB), which is currently at the committee stage in the House of Lords, are the ‘most radical changes in a generation’.
The amendments to the ERB aim to strengthen employee protections and modernise employment law in the UK by introducing 28 specific major changes.
One of the proposed amendments introduces a ‘day-one’ right for unfair dismissal, meaning employees can claim unfair dismissal from their first day of employment, rather than the current two-year qualifying period
The bill proposes to introduce an initial period of employment, likely to be nine months, where employers can adopt a simplified dismissal process if they are dissatisfied with an employee.
Rebecca said: “This will create a lot of due diligence in the recruitment process, and getting recruitment right is going to be particularly important.
“There will be a lot more management training. Managers will need to be aware that they can’t call someone into a meeting on a Friday to say ‘it isn’t working out’.”
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