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Here we detail selected new and updated resources due to be published.

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New resources

Commentary and insights: Managing zero hours workers

Alison Frazer looks at the practical implications of the Employment Rights Bill for employers managing workers on zero hours contracts.

April 2025

Commentary and insights: DEI in challenging times

Georgie Williams looks at what organisations can do to maintain an inclusive bedrock in turbulent political times.

April 2025

Podcast: Immigration law changes

Ferzana Ahmed and Mith Ragukaran, immigration solicitors at law firm Fragomen, take us through the latest immigration developments and issues affecting HR professionals, including what's on the horizon.

April 2025

Podcast: Employment Rights Bill - six months on

The Government published its wide-ranging Employment Rights Bill in October 2024. Six months on, Stephen Simpson, principal editor at Brightmine, reviews the Bill's progress through Parliament so far.

April 2025

Survey analysis and Benchmarking - HR metrics: Pay transparency and fair pay 2025

Our latest research examines how UK organisations are approaching pay transparency and fair pay. The survey explores key topics including: pay gap analysis and reporting; the measures used to enhance transparency; and the key drivers behind pay transparency practices.

April 2025

Survey analysis and Benchmarking - HR metrics: Sickness absence management and rates 2025

The latest research on sickness absence explores absence levels, sick pay and absence management at UK organisations.

April 2025

New resources to reflect new right to neonatal care leave and pay

Key information

The Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act entitles parents to take up to 12 weeks' neonatal care leave if their baby requires neonatal care and neonatal care pay if they meet further eligibility requirements.
  • Resources
Status On 20 January 2025, draft Regulations were published to accompany the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act, fleshing out the remaining details to enable the drafting of a neonatal care leave policy that complies fully with the new right. The draft Regulations confirm that neonatal care leave and pay is available to parents of children who are born on or after 6 April 2025.
Expected date

New forms published on 14 February 2025:

Detailed employment law guides published on 13 March 2025:

Other resources to follow in March 2025.

Updated content

Employment Rights Bill - ongoing reaction from Brightmine

Key information

The wide-ranging Employment Rights Bill paves the way for the biggest upheaval in employment law for many decades. Among other things, the Bill:

  • removes the two-year service requirement to claim unfair dismissal;
  • makes "fire and rehire" dismissals without evidence of financial difficulties automatically unfair;
  • changes the collective redundancy consultation threshold to cover the whole organisation, rather than each "establishment" within an organisation;
  • introduces a right for trade unions to request access to workplaces and requires employers to notify new hires of the right to join a union;
  • expands protection against dismissal for pregnant employees and individuals who are on, or have recently returned from, family-related leave;
  • makes statutory paternity leave and ordinary parental leave day-one employment rights;
  • makes entitlement and procedural changes to statutory sick pay;
  • entitles zero and low hours workers to stable contractual arrangements;
  • widens the statutory right to bereavement leave beyond bereaved parents to all employees;
  • requires large employers to publish gender pay gap and menopause action plans;
  • introduces stronger workplace harassment laws; and
  • reforms the right to request flexible working.
Resources
  • Ongoing commentary and insights from the Brightmine team: Our team of experienced HR and employment law experts is continuing to sift through the fine detail of the published Bill and any supporting documentation or announcements that the Government subsequently releases to bring you the very latest updates and insights.
Status The Employment Rights Bill was published on 10 October 2024 and is now making its way through Parliament. The Government has said that the majority of the reforms will take effect no earlier than 2026. The Government has also said that the removal of the two-year service requirement to claim unfair dismissal will take effect no sooner than autumn 2026.
Expected date

Between now and 2026 - and beyond.

Updates to reflect new right to paternity bereavement leave

Key information

The Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Act 2024 will allow an employee to take paternity leave as a day-one right where a mother, or a person with whom a child is placed or expected to be placed for adoption, dies.
Resources
  • New paternity bereavement leave policy explaining the rights of employees to paternity bereavement leave.
  • Suite of template letters to help support employers.
  • New section in employment law guide on paternity bereavement leave. 
Status The Paternity Leave (Bereavement Act) 2024 was passed under the previous Government. Regulations are still required to bring its provisions into force. These regulations will also set out further details necessary for drafting a paternity bereavement leave policy that complies fully with the new right. It's not yet known when these provisions will come into force, but it is likely to be during 2025 
Expected date

To be confirmed.