LRD guides and handbook May 2019

Law at Work 2019 - the trade union guide to employment law

Chapter 10

Dismissals and spent convictions 





[ch 10: pages 361-362]

Dismissal for a spent conviction is automatically unfair, but unlike most automatically unfair dismissals, two years’ service is needed (one year in Northern Ireland). See Chapter 3, pages 68-72 for information on criminal records checks and disclosing past convictions.