Are you ready for 2025?

In our first episode, Knowledge Counsel Anna West and Senior Associate Hanna Bates-Martens from our Employment team discuss forthcoming changes on unfair dismissal and zero-hours contracts, including:

• Unfair dismissal becoming a day one right
• Introduction of a statutory probationary period
• Rights for zero hours workers to be offered regular hours contracts
• Casual workers' rights to reasonable notice of shifts and compensation for cancellation
• Strategies for employers to prepare for these changes

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In our second episode, Knowledge Counsel Adam Rice and Associate Sophie Macpherson from our Employment team discuss recent developments in harassment and diversity reporting, including:

• The new duty to prevent workplace sexual harassment
• Proposals for mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting
• New equality action plans
• The EU pay transparency directive
• How employers can be prepared 

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In our third episode, Knowledge Counsel Adam Rice and Senior Associate Marianne Parkinson from our Employment team discuss recent and upcoming developments on collective employment issues, including:

• The latest on fire and rehire, and what is changing
• Changes to collective redundancy consultation
• Enhanced rights for trade unions
• Changes to the rules on strikes and other industrial action
• What the changes mean for employers 

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In our final episode, Knowledge Counsel Anna West and Associate Harriet Willis from our Employment team discuss future changes to flexible working and family friendly rights, including:

• Changes to the right to request flexible working
• The proposed new right to disconnect
• Dismissal protections for employees taking family leave
• Neonatal care leave and changes to parental and bereavement leave
• Key considerations for employers 

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