Assessing the legal and economic
implications of the Employment Rights Act 2025
Details
This paper evaluates the legal and economic implications of the
Employment Rights Act 2025. The paper:
analyses the impact of the act on UK labour law and the wider
economy
compares UK protections with those in other Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD )
countries
evaluates potential effects on employment and productivity
Employment
Rights Bill: factsheets
Employment Rights Act 2025
overview
Employment Rights Act 2025
analysis
Bereavement, Paternity and
Unpaid Parental Leave
Collective
Redundancy
Equality Action Plans and
Outsourcing
Fair Work Agency
Fire and Rehire
Flexible Working
Harassment
International
Conventions
Mandatory Seafarers
Charter
Protection for Pregnant Women
and New Mothers
Public Sector
Outsourcing
School Support Staff Negotiating
Body
Social Care Negotiating Bodies
and Fair Pay Agreements
Statutory Sick Pay
Statutory Sick Pay - Lower
Earnings Limit Removal Structure
Strengthening protections for
whistleblowers
Tips and Gratuities
Trade unions
Umbrella companies
Unfair dismissal
Zero hours
contracts
Details
The Employment Rights Bill, introduced to Parliament on 10
October 2024, is the first phase of delivering the Plan to Make
Work Pay.
This bill will support employers, workers, and unions to get
Britain moving forward. It will also update and modernise the
legislative framework in relation to employment rights.
The Plan to Make Work Pay sets out how the government is aiming
to:
grow the economy
raise living standards across the country
create opportunities for all
The plan will help more people to stay in work, improve job
security and boost living standards. The plan will also:
support employers and businesses across the country
create a fair and level playing field
modernise the employment rights framework to suit the economy
of today
Businesses, employers and employees can use these factsheets to
understand the measures within the bill and how it affects them.
Employment Rights Act 2025: impact assessments
Contents
Employment Rights Act 2025:
economic analysis and enactment summary impact assessment
Department for Business and
Trade (DBT) impact assessments
Cabinet Office impact
assessments
Department for Transport
impact assessments
Department for Work and
Pensions impact assessment
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support of the Employment Rights Act 2025 .
The research paper Assessing the legal and
economic implications of the Employment Rights Act 2025
outlines the legal and economic implications of the act.
Employment Rights Act 2025: economic analysis and
enactment summary impact assessment
Employment Rights Act
2025: economic analysis (PDF , 2.96 MB, 173 pages)
Department for Business and Trade (DBT) impact
assessments
Impact assessment: Making
flexible working the default (PDF , 529 KB, 32 pages)
Impact assessment:
Protections against dismissal for pregnant workers
(PDF , 405 KB, 31
pages)
Enactment impact
assessment: dismissal for failing to agree to variation of
contract (fire and rehire) (PDF , 673 KB, 44 pages)
Impact assessment: Day 1
unfair dismissal rights (PDF , 586 KB, 35 pages)
Impact assessment:
Establish a fair pay agreements process in the adult social care
sector (PDF ,
761 KB, 30 pages)
Impact assessment: Repeal
of the Trade Union Act 2016 (PDF , 588 KB, 42 pages)
Impact assessment: Repeal
the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (PDF , 417 KB, 30 pages)
Impact assessment:
Strengthening workers' rights to trade union access, recognition
and representation (PDF , 630 KB, 47 pages)
Impact assessment:
strengthening collective redundancy rights (PDF , 436 KB, 28 pages)
Impact assessment:
Whistleblowing protections against sexual harassment
(PDF , 356 KB, 21
pages)
Impact assessment: ZHCs -
Right to Guaranteed Hours (PDF , 498 KB, 37 pages)
Impact assessment: ZHCs -
Right to Reasonable Notice of Shift Patterns and Payment for
Shifts Cancelled, Moved or Curtailed at Short Notice
(PDF , 517 KB, 35
pages)
Impact assessment:
Strengthen existing tipping law (PDF , 274 KB, 21 pages)
Impact assessment:
Establish the Fair Work Agency (FWA) to bring together existing
state enforcement functions (PDF , 797 KB, 27 pages)
Impact assessment: Day 1
right to paternity leave and unpaid parental leave
(PDF , 604 KB, 36
pages)
Impact assessment: New
right to unpaid bereavement leave (PDF , 668 KB, 38 pages)
Impact assessment:
Employment tribunals time limits (PDF , 505 KB, 48 pages)
Impact assessment:
Amending new right to unpaid bereavement leave to include
pregnancy loss (PDF , 513 KB, 21 pages)
Impact assessment:
Contractual duties of confidentiality relating to harassment and
discrimination (PDF , 383 KB, 15 pages)
Cabinet Office impact assessments
Impact assessment:
Enabling regulations to specify specific steps employers must
take to prevent sexual harassment (PDF , 321 KB, 43 pages)
Impact assessment:
Ensuring outsourced workers are included in gender pay gap
reporting (PDF ,
320 KB, 35 pages)
Impact assessment: Require
employers to take “all reasonable steps” to prevent sexual
harassment of their employees (PDF , 323 KB, 40 pages)
Impact assessment:
Requiring employers to not permit the harassment of their
employees by third parties (PDF , 357 KB, 39 pages)
Impact assessment:
Requiring large employers to publish Equality Action Plans
(PDF , 336 KB, 40
pages)
Department for Transport impact assessments
Impact assessment:
Declaring collective redundancy for seafarers (PDF , 241 KB, 16 pages)
Impact assessment:
Mandatory seafarers' charter (PDF , 265 KB, 16 pages)
Impact assessment:
Implementing international conventions (PDF , 324 KB, 19 pages)
Department for Work and Pensions impact
assessment
Impact assessment: Improve
access to Statutory Sick Pay by removing the Lower Earnings Limit
and removing the waiting period (PDF , 522 KB, 36 pages)
