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  • Date:
    20 November 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Making sense of the Employment Rights Act 2025: A day in the life of an HR consultancy

    Current legislation provides employees with a wide range of protections, and many small, owner-managed businesses already feel overwhelmed by their obligations, especially when they operate without an internal HR function. How can these organisations prepare effectively for the Employment Rights Act 2025? Rochelle Murinas, managing director of HR consultancy DJH People and HR Limited, explores the role of HR consultancies and the challenges they are hearing about.

  • Date:
    18 November 2025
    Type:
    News

    Employment Rights Bill: Parliamentary ping-pong persists

    The Parliamentary ping-pong over the Employment Rights Bill continued this week, with various provisions being sent back from the House of Lords for further review and debate in the Commons.

  • Date:
    17 November 2025
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Employment Rights Bill - the whats and whens of the trade union-related reforms

    With the Employment Rights Bill nearing the end of its journey through Parliament, Laura Merrylees, senior legal editor at Brightmine, is joined by Nick Chronias, a partner at DAC Beachcroft, to discuss the Bill's many trade union-related changes.

  • Date:
    13 November 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    The Employment Rights Act 2025 is finally here - are you ready?

    In the run-up to the Employment Rights Bill receiving Royal Assent and becoming the Employment Rights Act 2025, Caroline Green talked to a group of HR professionals from a variety of sectors, including HE and adult learning, transport, real estate, law and consultancy, to find out how organisations were feeling about it and to suggest some next steps of how to prepare for the legislation's different strands.

  • Type:
    Training

    Appraisals - line manager training

    Reviewed and updated to reflect best practice for line managers when conducting appraisals, including a new version of the PowerPoint presentation and quiz. 

  • Date:
    6 November 2025
    Type:
    News

    Employment Rights Bill: MPs reject Lords' amendments again

    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.

  • Date:
    3 November 2025
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Rethinking how your organisation supports new parents

    In this episode of the podcast Zeba Sayed, senior legal editor at Brightmine, talks to Becs Peedell, employment lawyer at Lewis Silkin, about her organisation's equal new parent policy - and how it is seeking to encourage other firms to follow suit.

  • Type:
    Leading practice guides

    Equality, diversity and inclusion: The business case

    Updated with more recent data and research on the diversity within workplaces.

  • Date:
    29 October 2025
    Type:
    News

    Employment Rights Bill stumbles at final hurdle

    The Employment Rights Bill will now enter a 'ping pong' battle after a number of amendments were rejected by the House of Lords.

  • Date:
    28 October 2025
    Type:
    News

    Employment Rights Bill: Ministers won't 'water down' day-one rights

    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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