Unfair dismissal law – An LRD guide for union reps (December 2023)

Chapter 8

Spent convictions

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Dismissal for a spent conviction is automatically unfair under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, unlike most automatically unfair dismissals, two years’ service is needed (one year in Northern Ireland).


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