Employment Rights Bill – HR’s countdown to April 2026

Webinar

Employment Rights Bill – HR’s countdown to April 2026

When: 11am GMT, Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Duration: 60 minutes

With the Employment Rights Bill expected to receive Royal Assent shortly, HR professionals must ready themselves for the first big tranche of employment law changes taking place in April 2026.

In this webinar, Brightmine editors Stephen Simpson, Zeba Sayed and Robert Shore will explain what these amendments are and what employers can do to prepare for them. Employment law reforms in April 2026 are expected to include:

Trade union recognition reforms
Establishment of Fair Work Agency to enforce employment rights
Increase in protective award for collective redundancy consultation failures
Addition of sexual harassment to qualifying disclosures for whistleblowing
Removal of qualifying period for paternity leave and ordinary parental leave
Changes to eligibility for statutory sick pay (SSP)

We will also briefly look further ahead to outline what will happen after April 2026, with the Employment Rights Bill leading to further sweeping updates to employment law in October 2026 and beyond.

This 60-minute webinar includes a Q&A session. To submit your questions in advance, register today.

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About our contributors

Stephen Simpson

Principal HR Strategy and Practice Editor

Stephen is a principal editor who has worked on the Brightmine employment law and leading practice resources for over 20 years. After growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, he trained as a solicitor in England in the 1990s but soon moved into legal publishing. He was among the first recruits to Brightmine in the year before it was launched as XpertHR in 2002.

Stephen has worked on a wide range of employment law and leading practice resources, including overseeing the creation and expansion of the HR templates resource types (Policies and procedures, Letters and forms, and Contract clauses). He has written up over 1,000 reports on employment law cases and created practical guidance on a range of HR issues for the Commentary & insights tool. He also had a stint working on Personnel Today.

Zeba Sayed

Senior Legal Editor

Zeba is a former practising employment solicitor with more than 17 years' experience in employment law, both contentious and non-contentious. Zeba joined Brightmine in 2017 and is a senior legal editor in the employment law and compliance team. In this role, she is responsible for content, including Brightmine's Policies and procedures, Letters and forms and Contracts.

Robert Shore

Market Insights Editor

Robert has over 20 years' experience of publishing and journalism. At Brightmine he creates and commissions content for webinars and podcasts and for the Commentary and insights tool.

He has a Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Law. He was formerly an International employment law editor at Brightmine, and prior to that worked as an arts journalist. His book on IP and visual creativity, Beg, Steal and Borrow, was published in 2017.

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