Employment Rights Act 2025: Trade Union Reforms Take Effect
The Employment Rights Act 2025, which received Royal Assent in December 2025, signalled a major shift in UK employment law. With reforms rolling out throughout…
The Employment Rights Act 2025, which received Royal Assent in December 2025, signalled a major shift in UK employment law. With reforms rolling out throughout…
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The Employment Rights Act 2025, which received Royal Assent in December 2025, signalled a major shift in UK employment law. With reforms rolling out throughout 2026 and 2027, employers are...
A recent Employment Tribunal case (W Drysdale-Wood v Shared Lives South West) has resulted in a disability charity being ordered to pay more than £150,000 to a former employee with...
Review flexibility clauses and consider making any significant required changes to contractual terms before the new provisions come in What is the current situation? ‘Fire and rehire’ is the colloquial...
Review your probationary clauses and policies and how you recruit and manage new hires What is the current situation? Employees can currently only claim ordinary unfair dismissal if they have...
What is the current situation? Employers can currently use zero hours contracts with no obligation to provide regular work, to offer a set number of hours, or to pay for...
Centralise how you track redundancies as small numbers of dismissals across sites and workplaces may in future trigger statutory consultation processes and mistakes will be costlier What is the current...
What is the current situation? Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) is currently payable from the fourth day of sickness absence at a flat weekly rate (£118.75 per week from 6 April...
Larger employers will need to develop and publish reports on their plans to improve gender equality What is the current situation? Employers with 250 or more employees must publish an...
