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- Type:
- Contract clauses
Use our updated template wording to review and amend your organisation’s sick pay clause to remove wording that will no longer be accurate and reflect changes to statutory sick pay eligibility introduced through the Employment Rights Act 2025. These changes are expected to come into force on 6 April 2026.
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- Type:
- Contract clauses
Use our updated template wording to review and amend your organisation’s sick pay clause to remove wording that will no longer be accurate and reflect changes to statutory sick pay eligibility introduced through the Employment Rights Act 2025. These changes are expected to come into force on 6 April 2026.
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- Type:
- Contract clauses
Use our updated template wording to review and amend your organisation’s sick pay clause to remove wording that will no longer be accurate and reflect changes to statutory sick pay eligibility introduced through the Employment Rights Act 2025. These changes are expected to come into force on 6 April 2026.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
Updated to confirm that these measures are due to come into effect in 2027, according to the Government's updated timeline.
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- Date:
- 18 September 2025
- Type:
- News
MPs have rejected amendments to the Employment Rights Bill tabled by the House of Lords, which the government said would have weakened the Bill, including watering down the day one right to protection from unfair dismissal and limiting those able to benefit from the ban on 'exploitative' zero hours contracts.
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- Date:
- 30 July 2025
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
Shantha David, head of legal services at UNISON, joins the podcast to talk about the impact of the Employment Rights Bill on trade union rights, fire and rehire practices and more.
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- Date:
- 28 July 2025
- Type:
- News
The TUC has today (Monday) told Conservative and Liberal Democrat peers in the House of Lords to 'stop trying to block' stronger rights for millions of workers.
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- Date:
- 18 June 2025
- Type:
- News
Employers and agencies who hire summer staff must remember their pension obligations, the regulator has warned.
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- Date:
- 15 May 2025
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
The policy intent behind the measures relating to zero and low hours workers in the Employment Rights Act 2025 is to end one-sided flexibility and "exploitative zero hours contracts". This does not mean that there will be an outright ban on such contracts. What it does mean is that there will now be a legislative framework, the intention behind which is to deliver a better level of predictability and security for workers. Barrister and mediator Alison Frazer looks at the practical implications for HR.
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- Date:
- 8 January 2025
- Type:
- News
A tribunal has ruled that all Addison Lee drivers are workers, who will now be entitled to backdated holiday pay and compensation for loss of earnings.