Employment Rights Bill - The Government’s Implementation Plan Explained

Introduction

Major changes are coming to UK employment law — are you ready?

Prior to the General Election the Labour Party had written a document called ‘Make Work Pay’, which set out their plans for changes to employment legislation. To start the implementation of those plans the government released the Employment Rights Bill in October 2024. This Bill contained changes to 28 areas of employment law, but did not cover all the planned changes. There is also an Equality (Race and Disability) Bill, which is yet to be released, and other longer-term reforms. There are also some things that the government will proceed with which do not require changes to the law.

On 1 July 2025 the government released its 'Implementation Plan' for the Employment Rights Bill. This works through all the contents of the Bill, setting out when they are planned to come into force. Once the Bill has received Royal Assent there will be some changes, but most changes will be implemented in 2026 or 2027.

Learn how to stay compliant, support your workforce, and plan ahead for upcoming legal obligations. In this webinar Professor Kathy Daniels will discuss the contents of the Employment Rights Bill, looking at what they mean for employers and what preparations it might be useful to make. The webinar will look at the ‘next steps’, identifying what forms parts of the Government’s future plans together with a work through of the implementation plan, explaining when everything will be introduced.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• The right to claim unfair dismissal, sick pay, and parental leave from day one of employment
• Banning of exploitative zero-hour contracts
• Banning of using ‘fire and rehire’ to vary employment contracts
• Reforming Statutory Sick Pay
• Removing age bands for the National Minimum/Living Wage
• Making flexible working the default from day one of employment as far as is reasonable
• Making it unlawful to dismiss a woman who has had a baby for six months after her return to work, apart from in specific circumstances

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Monday 28th July 2025

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