Unfair Dismissal: Compensation

(asked on 16th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the estimated total cost of scrapping compensation caps for unfair dismissal for businesses in the UK.


Answered by
 Portrait
Baroness Lloyd of Effra
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
This question was answered on 2nd January 2026

The Government will be publishing an Enactment Impact Assessment on the impacts of the Employment Rights Act. This assessment can be found here when published: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/employment-rights-bill-impact-assessments

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