POLL OF THE DAY: Should Brits be capable to sue for unfair dismissal from their first day within the job?

The Government has abandoned plans to give workers day-one protection against unfair dismissal in a U-turn that breaches the Labour manifesto.

MPs including a former minister who spearheaded the Employment Rights Bill with ex-deputy leader Angela Rayner have voiced concerns over the climbdown.

Ministers have axed the proposal to cut the ‘qualifying period’ for workers to make an unfair dismissal claim from 24 months to the first day in a new job.

The move was made in a bid to get the legislation through Parliament after the Bill had been caught in a stand-off between peers and MPs over the original plan.

Workers will not now get the right to claim unfair dismissal until they have been in a job for at least six months, which is still shorter than the current two years.

But the day-one right had been a key Labour manifesto pledge. Now, you can have your say on employment rights in the Daily Mail’s latest poll of the day:

In yesterday’s poll, Mail readers were asked: ‘Should Rachel Reeves apologise for raising taxes in the Budget despite promising not to?‘ Out of more than 14,000 votes, 97 per cent of you said ‘yes’ and 3 per cent said ‘no’.