The government has published draft legislation on two significant industrial relations changes under the Employment Rights Act 2025. Subject to Parliamentary approval, workers will gain wider protection from detriment for taking protected industrial action from 30 October 2026, while new arrangements allowing electronic and workplace voting in statutory trade union ballots are expected to come into force later this summer.
Employers will be prohibited from subjecting workers to any detriment because they have taken part in protected industrial action. The government has confirmed that it will adopt a broad prohibition, rather than specifying an exhaustive list of prohibited detriments. The regulations also make clear that employers will continue to be entitled to make proportionate deductions from pay for periods during which employees take industrial action.
Separately, the government has laid draft legislation enabling electronic, hybrid and, in some circumstances, workplace voting for a range of statutory trade union ballots, including industrial action ballots. Trade unions will be responsible for deciding which voting methods to use,...
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