The draft Unfair Dismissal of Reasons for Dismisal (Variation of Qualifying Period) Order 2012 (www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1436/contents/made) have been published and set out that employees employed on or after 6th April 2012, the qualifying period for unfair dismissal (and requests a statement of reasons for dismissal) increases to two years.
Employees whose period of continuous employment began on or before 5th April 2012 will still be subject to the one year qualifying period.
Solicitor Advocate LLB (Hons), Higher Rights (Civil) at SCE Solicitors
Samira Cakali is a pragmatic and approachable solicitor advocate with extensive contentious and non-contentious experience in the fields of employment law as well as civil litigation, within a range of commercial businesses from SME’s to multinationals as well as senior executives.
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