Royal Assent was given to the Employment Rights Act 2025 on December 18 th 2025.  This Act, hailed as the biggest overhaul of employee rights in a generation, forms one of the cornerstones of the Governments economic strategy to ‘make work pay’.  Critics have pointed out that increased financial burdens to businesses, coupled with higher compliance costs and tighter bureaucracy, may inhibit growth and have unintended consequences to the labour market. So what does the Employ

Labour promised a comprehensive agenda of employment reform going into the July 2024 election in its plan to “Make Work Pay”.  Following...

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