BDBF Webinar || The Employment Rights Act 2025: What do employers need to do and when

On 25 March 2026, BDBF’s expert team provided a step-by-step guide to the Employment Rights Act 2025 – what changes when, what employers must do now to prepare and how to stay compliant. Our webinar covers the following areas: April 2026 changes · Increase to protective awards for collective consultation failures. · Enhancements to Paternity and Parental Leave. · Sexual harassment becomes a form of whistleblowing malpractice. · Round up of the other reforms being introduced in April 2026. October 2026 changes · Enhanced employer duties to prevent sexual harassment. · New liability for discriminatory harassment by third parties. · Time limit to bring Tribunal claims to rise to six months. · Requirement to give a written statement of trade union rights. · Round up of the other reforms being introduced in October 2026. January 2027 changes · Unfair dismissal: reduction of the qualifying period to six months and removal of the cap on compensation. · Restrictions on fire and rehire and fire and replace 2027 and beyond · Ban on restricting the disclosure of discrimination or harassment. · Higher bar for refusing flexible working requests. · New right to statutory Bereavement Leave. · New protections for zero and low hours workers. · Round up of the other reforms being introduced in 2027 and beyond. Other resources: BDBF Webinar - Complying with the new duty to prevent sexual harassment at work -    • Видео   00:13 – What are we going to cover today? 01:38 – Reforms coming into force on 6 April 2026 15:21 – Reforms coming into force in October 2026 26:46 – Reforms coming into force in January 2027 43:06 – Reforms coming into force later in 2027 56:26 – Other 2027 reforms