UK workers will get unfair dismissal rights after six months from 1 January 2027

Angela Rayner, the architect of the employment rights bill, had been planning to lay an amendment to ensure the protections come into force from early next year. Photograph: Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images

Ministers will speed up the implementation of protections against unfair dismissal for workers so that they start from 2027 after brokering a compromise with Angela Rayner.

Rayner, the former deputy prime minister and architect of the employment rights bill, had been planning to lay an amendment to ensure the protections come into force from early next year. But she will no longer do so after conversations with Peter Kyle, the business secretary.