The move comes in a bid to ensure the Government’s Employment Rights Bill makes it through Parliament Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his cabinet (Image: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Str)

Ministers have ditched plans to give workers day-one protection against unfair dismissal in a Labour manifesto U-turn.

The move comes in a bid to ensure the Government’s Employment Rights Bill makes it through Parliament.

Workers will need to have six months of service to claim unfair dismissal against their employer, in a watering down of the legislation which breaches Labour’s manifesto.

But this still represents a great reduction from the current qualifying period of 24 months.

The legislation has been caught in a stand-off between peers and MPs over the Government’s plan to give workers p

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