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Zero hours and casual contracts

New and updated

  • Type:
    Employment law guide

    Types of contract

    Updated with information on the Government’s implementation timetable for changes to zero-hours contracts under the Employment Rights Bill.

  • Date:
    2 July 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment Rights Bill implementation roadmap: Key dates for HR

    With the completion of the lengthy House of Lords committee stage on 24 June 2025 and the publication of the Government's implementation roadmap on 1 July 2025, the Employment Rights Bill is becoming an ever more pressing reality for HR departments. What happens next and what is the likely legislative timetable?

  • Type:
    Legal timetable

    Reform of zero hours contracts

    Updated to reflect the publication of the Government's Employment Rights Bill implementation roadmap.

  • Date:
    18 June 2025
    Type:
    News

    Pensions regulator: make sure summer staff don't miss out

    Employers and agencies who hire summer staff must remember their pension obligations, the regulator has warned.

  • Date:
    15 May 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment Rights Bill essentials: Managing zero hours workers

    The policy intent behind the measures relating to zero and low hours workers in the Employment Rights Bill is to end one-sided flexibility and "exploitative zero hours contracts". This does not mean that there will be an outright ban on such contracts. What it does mean is that there will now be a legislative framework, the intention behind which is to deliver a better level of predictability and security for workers. Barrister and mediator Alison Frazer looks at the practical implications for HR.

  • Date:
    5 March 2025
    Type:
    News

    Agency workers to be included in zero-hours clampdown

    Agency workers will be included in the ban on 'exploitative' zero-hours contracts, as the government tables around 250 amendments to its landmark Employment Rights Bill today.

  • Date:
    8 January 2025
    Type:
    News

    Hundreds of Addison Lee drivers win worker status case

    A tribunal has ruled that all Addison Lee drivers are workers, who will now be entitled to backdated holiday pay and compensation for loss of earnings.

  • Date:
    24 October 2024
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: Employment Rights Bill - how HR can get ahead of the changes

    In this webinar, Brightmine legal editors Stephen Simpson and Zeba Sayed explain what the changes are going to be, what employers can do now to begin preparing and the potential timelines for implementation.

  • Date:
    18 October 2024
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Employment Rights Bill research 2024

    The first draft of the Employment Rights Bill was published on 10 October - just ahead of 100 days into the new Labour Government. We take an early look at how HR is reacting to the changes included in the Bill.

  • Date:
    11 October 2024
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment Rights Bill published: 10 highlights for HR from the first draft

    After months of waiting, the Government has finally published the first draft of its wide-ranging Employment Rights Bill, which will make radical changes to employment law in the next few years. Now that the Employment Rights Bill has begun its progress through Parliament, we highlight the key points from the first draft for HR professionals.

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HR and legal information and guidance relating to zero hours and casual contracts.