The Employment Rights Bill was published back in October, and it has hardly been out of the headlines since.
The Bill is described as the biggest upgrade to rights at work for a generation, and its wide-ranging proposals will impact most employers.
Some of the key measures in the Bill include unfair dismissal reform, new rights for zero hours workers, restrictions on fire and re-hire, changes to collective consultation and numerous proposals regarding industrial relations. For more details, please see Blake Morgan’s overview document.
Although the UK Government has confirmed that most of the proposals in the Bill won’t be implemented until 2026 and that the changes to unfair dismissal won’t come in before autumn 2026, it is important to be aware of the measures in the Bill especially because a number of high-profile consultation papers on key aspects are expected in the months ahead.
Our experience to date suggests that our clients and contacts are interested in learning more about the Bill, and Blake Morgan’s Employment team have already provided training to a number of clients in response to requests.
Our Employment team have also written extensively about the Bill over the past six months – you can find all of our articles about the Bill, and a timeline of the Parliamentary process so far and the next stages on our website.
If you would like to be added to Blake Morgan’s Employment mailing list to keep up to date with the Bill’s developments and details of our events in relation to the Bill, please sign up here.
