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• Date:

  8 October 2025

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Employment Rights Bill: 10 key policies employers need to revamp

  The Employment Rights Bill packs an imposing number of employment law reforms into its 330 pages. With Royal Assent imminent, we outline the key policies that you will need to update.

• Date:

  29 September 2025

  Type:

  News

  Employment experts sceptical about Keir Starmer's digital ID plan

  UK prime minister Keir Starmer has confirmed the government will introduce digital IDs to ensure the UK's 'borders are more secure'.

• Date:

  19 September 2025

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Webinar: Immigration rules - conducting right to work checks and navigating upcoming changes

  This webinar provides essential guidance on conducting right to work checks and common pitfalls. It also considers how the proposed expansion of right to work checks to cover workers and self-employed contractors will impact employers.

• Date:

  17 September 2025

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: Probationary periods - forthcoming legal changes and lessons from recent tribunal cases

  Susie Munro, senior legal editor at Brightmine, looks at three recent tribunal cases relating to probationary periods, and discusses the upcoming introduction of a day-one right to claim unfair dismissal.

• Date:

  9 September 2025

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Probationary period research 2025

  With the Employment Rights Bill set to strengthen day-one rights, probationary periods are under greater scrutiny. We explore how organisations are responding and reflect on the challenges they face in making probation both fair and effective.

• Date:

  30 July 2025

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Webinar: Getting probationary periods right as Employment Rights Bill changes loom

  Join employment law specialist Darren Newman as he looks at employers' legal obligations and discusses specific scenarios where probationary periods commonly go wrong. Darren also looks at what employers can do now to prepare for the changes promised in the Employment Rights Bill.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Probationary periods: tribunal round-up

  We look at three cases where employers acted unlawfully when dismissing employees for performance during the probationary period.

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Documentation acceptable as proof of right to work in the UK - limited right to work in the UK (list B)

  Updated to refer to "Digital Verification Services", reflecting changes in the terminology used in government guidance (previously IDSPs and IDVT). 

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Documentation acceptable as proof of right to work in the UK - indefinite right to work in the UK (list A)

  Updated to refer to "Digital Verification Services", reflecting changes in the terminology used in government guidance (previously IDSPs and IDVT). 

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Proof of right to work in the UK - copying of documents requirements

  Updated to refer to "Digital Verification Services", reflecting changes in the terminology used in government guidance (previously IDSPs and IDVT).