In our Employment Rights Act 2025 recap webinar, we highlighted key areas from previous sessions on the requirement to provide workers with a statement of the right to join a trade union; the expanded duty to take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment; and aligning probation processes as a result of the reduction of the unfair dismissal qualifying period. Here we tackle 10 key recurring questions that came in during the webinar.
With the Employment Rights Act 2025 set to reduce the qualifying period for protection against unfair dismissal to six months, probationary practices are going to come under increasing scrutiny. Our research shows that probation fails less often from weak policies and more from managers lacking the support and training to apply one effectively - a weakness organisations are reluctant to address.
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Commentary and insights: HR and legal information and guidance relating to probationary periods.