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- Date:
- 13 November 2025
Far from being a casualty of 'woke' culture wars, inclusive hiring practices are in fact more popular than ever with employers, research has suggested.
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- Date:
- 6 November 2025
Parliamentary ping-pong resumed yesterday when the Employment Rights Bill returned to the House of Commons and MPs voted to reject peers' amendments on day-one unfair dismissal rights, zero-hours contracts and trade union ballot thresholds.
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- Date:
- 6 November 2025
The window for entering early conciliation with Acas will be doubled from six to 12 weeks from next month.
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- Date:
- 29 October 2025
The Employment Rights Bill will now enter a 'ping pong' battle after a number of amendments were rejected by the House of Lords.
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- Date:
- 28 October 2025
The government will not 'water down' day-one rights for unfair dismissal in the Employment Rights Bill and will reject an amendment from peers calling for a six-month qualifying period.
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- Date:
- 23 October 2025
Gender pay gap reporting will go ahead in Northern Ireland, but the threshold for employer size remains uncertain, and plans for mandatory reporting of pay gaps for ethnicity and disability have been paused for the time being.
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- Date:
- 22 October 2025
Nearly two-thirds of employers (62%) believe the UK is entering a new, more unstable period of employee relations, up from 53% in 2022, according to research from the CIPD
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- Date:
- 15 October 2025
Matthew Taylor has been appointed to lead the Fair Work Agency, the new body created from reforms in the Employment Rights Bill designed to protect workers from employers who flout minimum wage and other labour laws.
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- Date:
- 8 October 2025
Almost half of businesses are not meeting their legal duties on preventing sexual harassment, despite it being almost a year since legislation was introduced.
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- Date:
- 29 September 2025
UK prime minister Keir Starmer has confirmed the government will introduce digital IDs to ensure the UK's 'borders are more secure'.