With 2022 now over, we look ahead to the key developments that look set to shape the UK employment legal landscape in 2023 and beyond.

New employment rights

Whilst the Government’s promised Employment Bill now looks unlikely to materialise, in 2022 the Government instead announced that it intended to support a raft of private members’ bills to implement the changes promised in the, now defunct, Employment Bill. 2023 therefore looks set to be a busy year on the legislative front, with a suite of six Government-backed private members’ bills currently making their way through Parliament and looking likely to enter the statute books during the course of 2023/2024. These include:

1. Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill 2022-23: once passed, this Bill will give the Secretary of State power to introduce regulations to extend the existing redundancy protections available to women on maternity leave, so that the same protections are also available to cover a woman’s pregnancy and for a six month period after returning to work. The same enhanced protections will also be available to those employees on adoption or shared parental leave. You can track the progress of the bill here.

2. Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill 2022-23: once passed, this Bill will (i) place an obligation on employers to take reasonable steps to prevent employees from suffering harassment in the course of their employment from third parties (such as customers or...

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