Legislation Updates - HR Inner Circle

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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March 6, 2025

The Latest Employment Rights Bill Consultation Responses

Earlier this week the Government published its responses to its consultations on various aspects of the Employment Rights Bill: on strengthening remedies against abuse of rules on collective redundancy and fire and

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March 3, 2025

No Legal Right to Disconnect: Government U-Turn on Work-Life Balance Plan

Reports suggest ministers are set to scrap plans for a legal right to ‘switch off’ outside work hours. The proposal, a key element of Sir Keir Starmer’s “New Deal for Working

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February 5, 2025

Unlawful deductions from wages – no longer a limited risk?

Hidden within the Watford employment tribunal’s judgment in last month’s employment status case of Afshar and others v Addison Lee was an interesting – and, for employers, worrying – conclusion

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January 8, 2025

Definitely Maybe: UK Employment Law Changes in 2025

Oasis re-forming was one of the key ‘will they; won’t they’ stories of 2024. A clear case of ‘definitely maybe’ was resolved with the announcement of a raft of gigs

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October 31, 2024

Zero-hours Workers – guaranteed hours and other measures

This part of the Employment Rights Bill is a minefield. The government’s aim is to create some kind of certainty and stability for zero-hours workers, and to prevent exploitative contracts.

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October 16, 2024

Employment Rights Bill: Spotlight on fire and rehire

The Employment Rights Bill, published on 10th October, introduces significant changes across a wide-range of employment practices. In this week’s blog, we explore the Bill’s proposals for fire and rehire

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October 11, 2024

Key Provisions of the Employment Rights Bill

The much-anticipated Employment Rights Bill was published earlier today. The second reading is due to take place on 21st October. We don’t know the commencement date for any of this

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August 20, 2024

Taking to the stage and waiting in the wings – Summer and Autumn Employment Law Changes

We all know that major changes are afoot for employment law in the next few months. The government has promised to produce a draft Employment Rights Bill by the end

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