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- Date:
- 27 November 2025
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
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.
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- Date:
- 26 November 2025
- Type:
- News
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.
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- Date:
- 26 November 2025
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
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.
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- Date:
- 25 November 2025
- Type:
- Case studies
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.
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- Date:
- 20 November 2025
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
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.
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- Date:
- 18 November 2025
- Type:
- News
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.
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- Date:
- 17 November 2025
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
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.
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- Date:
- 13 November 2025
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
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.
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- Type:
- Training
Reviewed and updated to reflect best practice for line managers when conducting appraisals, including a new version of the PowerPoint presentation and quiz.
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- Date:
- 6 November 2025
- Type:
- News
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.