Major overhaul of employment law expanding worker protections including guaranteed hours, sick pay, parental leave, unfair dismissal rights, and strengthening trade union powers. Affects millions of UK workers.
A Bill to make provision to amend the law relating to employment rights; to make provision about procedure for handling redundancies; to make provision about the treatment of workers involved in the supply of services under certain public contracts; to provide for duties to be imposed on employers in relation to equality; to amend the definition of “employment business” in the Employment Agencies Act 1973; to provide for the establishment of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body and the Social Care Negotiating Bodies; to amend the Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023; to make provision for the implementation of international agreements relating to maritime employment; to make provision about trade unions, industrial action, employers’ associations and the functions of the Certification Officer; to make provision about the enforcement of legislation relating to the labour market; and for connected purposes.
Status: Act of Parliament
Current House: Unassigned
Stage: Royal Assent
Sponsored by: Jonathan Reynolds, Baroness Lloyd of Effra
Introduced: 2024-10-10
Royal Assent: 2025-12-10