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- Date:
- 26 June 2026
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
The Prime Minister has resigned - what does this mean for the future of the Employment Rights Act 2025?
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- Date:
- 26 June 2026
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Flexible working is reshaping workplace expectations. With further changes due under the Employment Rights Act 2025 next year, Charlotte Wiseman and Olivia Arnold, of leading organisational consultancy Step Inside Group, explore the implications for HR teams, managers and employees, and outline a blueprint of what best practice looks like for organisations.
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- Date:
- 23 June 2026
- Type:
- News
After Sir Keir Starmer's resignation as Labour Party leader, and an expectation that Andy Burnham will be prime minister within weeks, what would a government led by the former mayor of Manchester mean for employers? With Wes Streeting now backing Andy Burnham, and only a slim possibility that any other Labour MP would garner the backing of 81 colleagues to challenge him, the "King of the North" could be in Number 10 by 17 July.
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- Type:
- Editor's choice
Updated to promote our 2026 managing poor performance survey.
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- Date:
- 28 May 2026
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Workplace grievances written with the assistance of generative AI are on the rise, increasing the pressure on HR departments and line managers. Katherine Pope offers guidance to help employers deal fairly and efficiently with lengthy, legal citation-rich documents that sometimes obscure rather than reveal the core issues.
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- Date:
- 19 May 2026
- Type:
- News
While 84% of HR leaders in the UK believe their employees would rate their overall experience at work as 'excellent or good', only 60% of employees actually do. British workers are among the least satisfied among seven countries where employee benefits platform Benifex polled employees.
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- Date:
- 14 May 2026
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
Some major changes are coming to the harassment laws in October. Global inequalities specialist - and licensed skipper - Georgie Williams joins the podcast to talk about what it's like to draw up an anti-harassment policy on a ship. What does it mean when you can't "clock off" and go home in the way you can with land-based office jobs? How does this change dynamics? What challenges does this raise?
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- Date:
- 6 May 2026
- Type:
- News
The number of CEOs who believe AI will lead to reduced hiring has more than halved, according to a global survey, which also found leaders increasingly resilient to geopolitical tensions.
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- Date:
- 4 May 2026
- Type:
- News
UK employer bodies have written to the government calling for tripartite discussions with ministers and unions on the implementation of trade union access rights in the Employment Rights Act 2025.
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- Date:
- 1 May 2026
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
The Employment Rights Bill, described as "the greatest shift in employment legislation in decades", received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025 and passed into law as the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA). That doesn't mean all the workplace law reforms it contains came into force immediately, however. Here we set out the changes that have been enacted so far - and what HR should do about them.