The Government has published a Roadmap providing a timetable of likely implementation dates for measures in the Employment Rights Bill (ERB). It also outlines a phased timeline for periods of consultation planned to take place both this year and during 2026, prior to such measures coming into force. The headline change is that the Government's much publicised commitment to employees' protection from unfair dismissal becoming a "Day One" right during 2026, has been put back to sometime in 2027.
Existing legislation on minimum service levels on strikes and the majority of the Trade Union Act 2016, will be repealed. At the same time, measures to enhance the protection against dismissal for taking industrial action and simplifying some ballot rules will come into force.
Measures introduced during this month will include doubling the maximum period of the collective redundancy protective award, "day one" eligibility to paternity leave and unpaid parental leave, establishment of the Fair Work Agency, removal of the lower earnings limit and waiting period for statutory sick pay, simplifications to the trade union recognition process, the introduction of electronic and workplace balloting, and enhancement of whistleblowing protections.
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