Companies are increasingly using recruiters to get rid of staff by the backdoor to cut their workforces and skirt around employment law.
“Reverse hiring” works when a manager asks an external recruiter to “headhunt” an employee out of the business and place them elsewhere.
Employers cannot dismiss staff without good reason under British law. Currently, a worker can only make a claim for unfair dismissal after two years of employment. The Labour Party has said it wants to cut this down to just one day.
One city recruiter, Evan Jowers, a partner at Lateral Link, said law firms were among those using “reverse hiring” to downsize.
He said a slowdown in business since the start of last year and over-hiring during the pandemic has led some corporate firms to increase the pace at which they get rid of staff.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/bosses-dismissing-underperforming-staff-cheap/
