Employment Rights Act 2025
What this means for your business
- Applies to
- United Kingdom
- On this page
- 23 practical guides across 5 topics
Practical guidance
Our guides explain how to comply with the requirements above.
Employment & HR 18
Statutory Sick Pay: employer guide
How Statutory Sick Pay works for employers: day-one eligibility, no waiting days, no lower earnings limit, and the …
Zero-hours contracts: employer obligations
How to comply with zero-hours contract rules: guaranteed hours offers, shift notice requirements, and compensation for cancelled shifts. …
Employment Rights Act 2025: what employers need to know
Overview of all 28 reforms in the Employment Rights Act 2025, with implementation timeline from April 2026 to …
Unfair dismissal: employer guide
How unfair dismissal protection works for employers: the 6-month qualifying period, fire and rehire restrictions, removal of the …
Fire and rehire: what employers can and cannot do
Detailed guidance on fire and rehire restrictions under ERA 2025. Covers what constitutes fire and rehire, when the …
Family leave: employer checklist
Checklist for implementing day-one paternity leave, unpaid parental leave, and bereavement leave entitlements under ERA 2025. Covers policy …
Updating employment contracts for ERA 2025
Checklist of changes needed to employment contracts and written statements following the Employment Rights Act 2025. Covers the …
The complete employment lifecycle: employer responsibilities from hire to exit
A comprehensive guide to employer responsibilities across every stage of the employment relationship, from lawful advertising and recruitment …
Employment law in Northern Ireland: key differences from Great Britain
How employment law in Northern Ireland differs from Great Britain. Covers the Orders in Council legislative framework, the …
Respond to an employment tribunal claim
What to do when a current or former employee brings an employment tribunal claim against your business. Covers …
Working with trade unions
Your legal obligations when dealing with trade unions, including recognition, collective bargaining, time off rights, and industrial action.
Preventing workplace harassment: employer duties
How to comply with strengthened harassment prevention duties from October 2026, including third-party harassment liability and 'all reasonable …
Collective redundancy: updated consultation rules
Updated guidance on collective redundancy consultation following ERA 2025 changes, including doubled protective award and new organisation-wide threshold.
Fair Work Agency: what employers need to know
What the Fair Work Agency is, what it enforces, and how to prepare. The FWA launches on 1 …
Mandatory hiring requirements
Every employer obligation from pre-hire through the first month of employment. Covers right to work checks, written statements …
Employment Contracts and Written Statements
Your legal duty to provide written employment terms. Covers the day-1 requirement, mandatory terms, contract types, zero-hours protections, …
Trade union rights: what has changed for employers
Overview of trade union reform under the Employment Rights Act 2025, including workplace access rights, electronic balloting, simplified …
How Shared Parental Leave works: a guide for employers and parents
Explainer on the Shared Parental Leave framework. Covers what SPL is and is not, the curtailment-and-conversion mechanic, eligibility …
Tax & Finance 2
Sector-Specific 1
Compliance & Legal 1
Sections and provisions
172 classified provisions from this legislation.
Duties 16
- s.19 Review of extent of right to time off for public duties
- s.21 Harassment by third parties
- s.35 Duty to keep records relating to annual leave
- s.37 Guidance about the employment of children on heritage railways
- s.40 Membership, procedure, etc of Negotiating Body
- s.44 Reconsideration by Negotiating Body
- s.47 Effect of regulations ratifying agreement
- s.49 Guidance and codes of practice
- s.50 Duty of employers to keep records employers
- s.106 Notices of underpayment: further provision
- s.107 Penalties for underpayment underpaid individual
- s.113 Effect of replacement notice of underpayment
- s.118 Recovery of costs of legal assistance
- s.125 Power to make LME order on conviction An LME order
- Schedule 1 Agency workers: guaranteed hours and rights relating to shifts sums payable
- Schedule 8 Warrants under Part 5: further provision reference
Offences and penalties 8
- s.102 Offences relating to gangmasters: power to enter premises with warrant
- s.108 Further provision about penalties
- s.139 Offence of failing to comply with LME order
- s.140 Offence of providing false information or documents
- s.142 Offence of obstruction
- s.144 Offences by bodies corporate
- s.145 Application of this Part to partnerships
- s.146 Application of this Part to unincorporated associations
Powers 44
- s.2 Shifts: rights to reasonable notice
- s.39 Power to establish Social Care Negotiating Body
- s.43 Consideration of matters by Negotiating Body
- s.45 Failure to reach an agreement
- s.46 Power to ratify agreements
- s.48 Power of appropriate authority to deal with matters
- s.52 Regulations under section 46 or 48 : supplementary
- s.53 Regulations under this Chapter
- s.54 Status of agreements, etc
- s.57 International agreements relating to maritime employment
- s.92 Delegation of functions
- s.93 Advisory Board
- s.96 Power to obtain documents or information
- s.97 Power to enter premises in order to obtain documents, etc
- s.98 Power to enter dwelling subject to warrant
- s.99 Supplementary powers in relation to documents
- s.100 Retention of documents
- s.103 Power to give notice of underpayment
- s.104 Calculation of the required sum
- s.109 Suspension of penalty where criminal proceedings have been brought, etc
- ... and 24 more powers
Definitions 15
- s.4 Agency workers: guaranteed hours and rights relating to shifts agency worker work-finding agency
- s.6 Amendments relating to sections 1 to 5 specified zero hours arrangement zero hours contract
- s.36 Extension of regulation of employment businesses employment business Employment arrangements
- s.41 Matters within Negotiating Body’s remit
- s.42 Meaning of “social care worker”
- s.55 Interpretation of this Chapter contract of employment employment enactment
- s.90 Enforcement of labour market legislation by Secretary of State enforcement officer
- s.91 Enforcement functions of Secretary of State
- s.122 Means of giving notice under section 119 electronic address working day
- s.132 Items subject to legal privilege communications
- s.134 Information relating to the intelligence services, etc crime intelligence service information
- s.137 Restriction on disclosure of HMRC information HMRC information national minimum wage information revenue and customs information relating to a person
- s.150 Meaning of “non-compliance with relevant labour market legislation”
- s.151 Interpretation: general the Advisory Board employee enactment
- Schedule 9 Persons to whom information may be disclosed under section 135
Exemptions 10
- s.3 Right to payment for cancelled, moved and curtailed shifts
- s.33 Equality action plans
- s.105 Period to which notice of underpayment may relate
- s.110 Appeals against notices of underpayment
- s.117 Power to provide legal assistance
- s.133 Privilege against self-incrimination
- s.136 Disclosure of information: supplementary provision
- s.138 Restriction on disclosure of intelligence service information
- s.147 Application of this Part to the Crown and Parliament
- s.156 Regulations