Employment Rights Bill: individual workers’ rights

The introduction of the Employment Rights Bill heralds the most sweeping change in employment law for generations.

It consists of 158 pages containing 119 clauses and seven schedules. Anyone concerned with advising employers or employees needs to be aware of the outline of the changes which it will make.

Don’t miss this essential webinar, where we’ll break down the pivotal new rights and changes set to reshape the employment landscape.

Topics covered include:

• The right to claim unfair dismissal becomes available from Day One of employment
• There will be an exception for the period of probation which will be subject to special rules
• Zero hours contracts will give way to a right to guaranteed hours
• Employers will have to give notice of shift changes
• The duty to consult in cases of collective redundancy will be expanded
• The cap on a protective award for failure to consult in collective redundancy situations will be lifted
• The practice of “fire and rehire” adopted by some employers will become unlawful except in very limited circumstances
• The refusal of a request for flexible working will be subject to a reasonableness test
• Extended protection from dismissal will be conferred on new mothers
• Employers will be fixed with a new duty to take all reasonable steps to prevent harassment of their employees by third parties such as customers.