People will need to have six months of service to claim unfair dismissal against their employer under the proposed change.

Ministers have abandoned plans to give workers day-one protection against unfair dismissal in a bid to ensure the Employment Rights Bill makes it through Parliament.

The Government now intends to introduce the right after six months of service instead – down from the current qualifying period of 24 months – in a U-turn that breaches Labour’s manifesto.

The legislation has been caught in a stand-off between peers and MPs over the original proposal to give workers protection on their first day in a job, as well as measures to ban “exploitative” zero hours contracts.

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) insisted the updated package would still “benefit millions

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