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Conditions of Employment

Commons · Question 90879 · Tabled 13 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 24 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Chris Coghlan

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make assessment of the potential impact of companies denying employees (a) continuous service pay rises and (b) other accumulated benefits after being transferred from rolling fixed-term con

Answer

Answered by Kate Dearden, 24 Nov 2025

There are no current plans to make such an assessment. Under the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002, employers must not treat employees less favourably because they are on fixed-term contracts than permanent em...