Webinar: Employment Rights Bill - HR's countdown to April 2026
With the Employment Rights Bill expected to receive Royal Assent shortly, HR professionals must ready themselves for the first big tranche of employment law changes taking place in April 2026.
In this webinar, Brightmine editors Stephen Simpson, Zeba Sayed and Robert Shore explain what these amendments are and what employers can do to prepare for them. Employment law reforms in April 2026 are expected to include:
- Trade union recognition reforms
- Establishment of Fair Work Agency to enforce employment rights
- Increase in protective award for collective redundancy consultation failures
- Addition of sexual harassment to qualifying disclosures for whistleblowing
- Removal of qualifying period for paternity leave and ordinary parental leave
- Changes to eligibility for statutory sick pay (SSP)
We also briefly look further ahead to outline what will happen after April 2026, with the Employment Rights Bill leading to further sweeping updates to employment law in October 2026 and beyond.
