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Focusing on The Employment Rights Act 2025, this session will give you a clear, practical overview of what’s changing, when reforms take effect, and what actions employers and employees should take to prepare for the transition – helping you stay ahead of one of the most important employment law shifts in decades.
29 April – 10:30-11:30
The Employment Rights Bill marks the biggest transformation of UK employment law since the 1990s, introducing wide ranging reforms aimed at strengthening worker protections and modernising rules for today’s labour market. It brings major updates affecting unfair dismissal, zero hours contracts, flexible working, sick pay, family leave and trade union rights.
Key changes rolling out in 2026 include day one eligibility for paternity and unpaid parental leave, statutory sick pay from the first day of absence and enhanced whistleblowing protections, alongside updates to redundancy processes and union regulations. These reforms will significantly impact how all organisations manage people, policies and compliance.
Your speaker
John Wood
Partner in the employment team at Knights Plc
John is a Partner specialising in employment law and hugely experienced in advising local and national organisations of all sizes across a broad range of sectors.
He provides practical and commercial advice together with strategic counselling and guidance on a full range of employment issues including disciplinary and grievances, unfair dismissal, discrimination, equal pay, TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment) and employment tribunal claims.
Knights Plc are a long established legal firm providing full legal services to more than 10,000 business clients from 32 office locations across the country.
During the session, you’ll have the opportunity to ask John questions.
How to book
Look out for an email titled ‘Partner Webinar – The Employment Rights Bill – What you need to know’, then simply click the ‘Book webinar’ button.
Or reach out to your Workforce Development Manager who will be able to help you register.
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