The Employment Rights Act 2025 delivers the most significant reform of UK employment law in a generation. It strengthens worker protections, expands statutory entitlements, reforms dismissal and redundancy rules, enhances protections against harassment, and establishes a new, centralised labour market enforcement framework.
The Act amends the Employment Rights Act 1996 and related legislation to address insecure work, workplace fairness, equality, and enforcement. It applies across Great Britain (with some Northern Ireland provisions) and places enhanced compliance obligations on employers, employment businesses and public bodies.
Benefits of compliance:
