The UK Employment Rights Bill was published on 10 October 2024, and it was introduced as part of the UK government’s “Plan to Make Work Pay,” which is designed to modernise UK employment rights. The aim of the bill is to improve job security, raise living standards, and create fair working practices through measures such as ending exploitative zero-hours contracts and limiting “fire and rehire.” The bill is currently going through Parliament, but is now in its final stage with the expectation of receiving Royal Assent and becoming law by the end of 2025. Some changes may be enacted upon receiving Royal Assent; however, many measures likely will not come into effect until 2026 and 2027, and further changes may still be made.

• The UK Employment Rights Bill has been described as “the biggest upgrade in employment rights for a generation.”
• The scope of the bill covers permanent and agency workers, maternity and bereavement leave, statutory sick pay, flexible working, whistleblowing protections, collective redundancy, trade union reform, outsourcing, and seafaring.
• On 1 July 2025, the government published a roadmap for the delivery of the Employment Rights Bill. Its purpose was to set out implementation phases and key measures.

A central feature of the original bill was the expansion of day-one unfair dismissal rights. The bill originally proposed that employees would be protected from unfair dismissal from the first day of employment, with some form of statutory...

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