The Employment Rights Bill is unlikely to become law until at least the autumn as it remains subject to amendments in the House of Lords.

The Bill is now at report stage in the House, and two sessions have so far been allocated for this: on 14 July and 16 July. The House rises for its summer recess on 24 July. At report stage, more amendments can be made to the measures and votes taken.

Committee stage, with its line-by-line examination of the Bill’s clauses, was completed after 11 sessions on Tuesday this week.

Before being passed, the Bill will also need its third reading in the House, which is not likely to take place until September at the earliest. No time in the Lords calendar has yet been allocated to this.

At the third reading, further amendments can be made (although on nothing that has already been debated), which could require more debating time in the Commons – time that hasn’t as yet been allocated before the recess in late July.

Employment law expert Darren Newman said in a LinkedIn post that he expected the Bill to receive Royal Assent at the end of September or early October.

Newman added that, once passed and made law, this was “when the fun starts” because the government has said it would start consulting on regulations needed to implement some of the key measures.

“That is when we will discover how much the government has thought through the detail of what it is proposing and we can start to estimate when individual measures will actually come into...

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