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Employment Rights Bill: consultations launched as bill rejected by House of Lords
Posted: 29/10/2025
On Tuesday 28 October, the House of Lords refused to accept a number of the government's proposals in the Employment Rights Bill, most significantly in relation to day one unfair dismissal rights and guaranteed hours contracts. This unexpected development means that the bill will have to be debated again in the House of Commons......>>
Preparing for the new 'failure to prevent fraud' offence - HR's critical role
Posted: 08/08/2025
The new 'failure to prevent fraud' offence under the UK’s Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 will come into force on 1 September 2025. The act introduces a corporate criminal liability for large organisations if an 'associated person' commits a 'base fraud offence' intending to benefit the organisation or its clients......>>
Tracking the progress of the Employment Rights Bill: a summer of calm before the autumn storm?
Posted: 17/07/2025
As it heads towards the parliamentary summer recess, the government has been busy making final changes to its flagship Employment Rights Bill, which is now expected to receive royal assent in early autumn. In addition to the changes - examined in more detail below - the government has also published an implementation 'roadmap'......>>
Supreme Court rules on meaning of 'woman' and 'sex' in Equality Act
Posted: 17/04/2025
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has ruled in the case of For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers that the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex, not to gender identity. The women's rights group, For Women Scotland (FWS), brought judicial review proceedings challenging the definition of 'woman’......>>
Government publishes amendments to Employment Rights Bill
Posted: 17/03/2025
March is proving to be a busy month for those with an interest in employment law. This month saw the government publish five responses to consultations on various aspects of the Employment Law Bill, before putting forward some 200 pages of amendments to the bill, which has its third reading in the House of Commons this week......>>
Tackling disability discrimination in the workplace
Posted: 25/02/2025
The Labour Party’s ‘Plan to Make Work Pay’, published in May 2024, confirmed its commitment to tackling inequalities for disabled people in the workplace, promising the introduction of mandatory disability (and ethnicity) pay gap reporting. The party manifesto, published in advance of the general election, further promised to improve access......>>
The end of hybrid working?
Posted: 10/02/2025
For many, one of the very few silver linings to come from the Covid-19 pandemic was the increased flexibility to work remotely. By cutting out the commute, many employees suddenly found they had a few extra hours to spend on work, family, personal responsibilities or downtime, and were one step closer to that often elusive ‘work-life balance’......>>
What to expect in employment law in 2025
Posted: 08/01/2025
The Labour Party’s victory in the 2024 general election means that 2025 is set to be another busy year in the field of employment law. Its ‘Plan to Make Work Pay’ has been heralded, admittedly by the deputy prime minister Angela Rayner, as the biggest upgrade to rights at work for a generation, and the publication of the Employment Rights......>>
Truth will out – lies and the recruitment process
Posted: 02/12/2024
Questions have been asked over the past week about the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s suitability for her job, with recent changes to Rachel Reeves’ LinkedIn profile suggesting that she does not have as much experience as an economist as previously claimed. LinkedIn profiles and CVs are of course the first port of call for prospective......>>
Consultation on collective redundancy and fire and rehire – what could this mean for employers?
Posted: 21/11/2024
The government recently launched a consultation document seeking views on its plans to strengthen the collective redundancy framework and protections for employees against fire and rehire practices, as set out in the Employment Rights Bill. For more information on the bill itself, see the previous article here. To understand what the......>>

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