Legislation Updates - HR Inner Circle

October 27, 2026

30th October 2026: five significant changes for HR

For HR professionals, the 30th October marks another significant implementation date for the Employment Rights Act 2025. This tranche of reforms focuses principally on harassment and trade union rights –

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October 1, 2026

Right to work checks are changing … from today!

From today, 1st October 2026, the UK's illegal working regime changes significantly. For HR, perhaps the biggest shift is that right to work compliance can no longer be viewed simply

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July 30, 2026

The biggest shake-up of the Acas Code in 17 years

Acas has just published a draft new Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures for consultation. This is the first full rewrite since 2009 (the Code was last touched

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December 17, 2025

Employment Rights Act 2025: What employers should be focusing on now

After months of parliamentary back-and-forth, the Employment Rights Bill has finally cleared the House of Lords and has today (18th December 2025) received Royal Assent. It has now become the

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Dismissal

December 1, 2025

Government ditches ‘day one’ unfair dismissal rights pledge: what next?

The right to claim unfair dismissal is a flagship UK employment protection. It has never been a day one entitlement and, following the Government’s announcement last week, it appears this

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October 27, 2025

Government launches four major consultations under the Employment Rights Bill

The government has opened four significant consultations under the Employment Rights Bill (to become the Employment Rights Act 2025 in due course). Below is an overview of each consultation and

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July 18, 2025

House of Lords amendment to proposed day-one unfair dismissal rights

One of the government’s flagship changes in the Employment Rights Bill - due to take effect in 2027 - promises day-one protection against unfair dismissal. It was a key part

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July 8, 2025

Key Government Amendments to the Employment Rights Bill

A flurry of government-backed amendments to the Employment Rights Bill was published overnight - some of which were not previously on the radar. Here’s a first look at the five biggest

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July 2, 2025

Implementing the Employment Rights Bill: 2025–2027 Employment Law Roadmap

The Government has today published “Implementing the Employment Rights Bill: our roadmap for delivering change”, giving us a greater degree of clarity on when the various wide-ranging changes to the

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Discrimination

April 16, 2025

Supreme Court rules that sex in Equality Act 2010 means biological sex – a ‘woman’ does not include a trans woman with a gender recognition certificate

The Supreme Court handed down its highly anticipated judgment in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers yesterday. The Supreme Court was asked to decide whether a trans woman with

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Wages

March 24, 2025

New Statutory Rates for 2025/2026

The statutory rates of pay applicable to the various different types of family leave which can be taken, the amount payable as statutory sick pay and certain limits on other

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March 11, 2025

Fair Work Agency

When Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay included a pledge to create a single enforcement body for employment rights it constituted one of the party’s less eye-catching proposals for reform.

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