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If you employ people in your business then you need to be aware of the Employment Rights Act 2025. In short, it’s the biggest UK employment law changes in decades and it’s rolling out between now and 2027.
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The Effective End of Fire and Rehire: What to Do Instead
Fire and rehire — dismissing employees and offering to re-engage them on different, usually less favourable, terms — has been a controversial but legally available option for employers who needed to change employment conditions.
The Employment Rights Act effectively closes that door.
Under the new legislation, fire and rehire will only be permissible in the narrowest of circumstances: where the employer can demonstrate that the variation was genuinely necessary to prevent a business failure, and where they've exhausted all alternatives through proper consultation.
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