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  • Date:
    27 November 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Who faces the greatest challenges from the Employment Rights Act 2025 - and how can HR help?

    As the provisions of the Employment Rights Act 2025 start to come into force, all organisations will need to adapt. But certain sectors and business types, such as SMEs, those with fluid or casual workforces and unionised environments, face the steepest learning curves.

  • Date:
    26 November 2025
    Type:
    News

    Autumn Budget 2025: Salary sacrifice hit and tax thresholds frozen

    Tax thresholds will remain frozen and pension salary sacrifice will no longer be exempt from National Insurance, the Chancellor has confirmed in today's Budget.

  • Date:
    26 November 2025
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: Employment Rights Act 2025 - HR's countdown to April 2026

    HR professionals must ready themselves for the first big tranche of changes taking place in April 2026. In this webinar, recorded shortly before the Employment Rights Act 2025 passed into law, we explain what these amendments are and what employers can do to prepare for them.

  • Date:
    25 November 2025
    Type:
    Case studies

    Embedding culture intelligence within the NHS

    Bernadette Thompson OBE, Director of People and Culture at North Middlesex Hospital, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, talks to Shelagh Prosser about advancing cultural intelligence within the NHS, drawing on her experiences at Barts Health NHS Trust and King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust over the past three years.

  • 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 Innov8 Human Resources, 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

    Performance 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.

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