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Unionised or Not | How the Employment Rights Act 2025 will affect your organisation

The Employment Rights Act 2025 introduces some of the most significant ever changes to employer-union relations.

The Act makes union recognition easier, introduces new workplace access rights, enhances the rights of union representatives  and changes the rules and protections around industrial action. Together, these reforms will create a new employee relations landscape for employers across all sectors.

For HR leaders, the challenge isn’t simply understanding the legislation. It’s understanding what these changes mean for workforce engagement, organisational flexibility and employee relations strategy.

Whether your organisation is unionised or not, now is the time to assess your risks, strengthen employee voice and prepare for the key provisions coming into force throughout 2026.

In this session, ESP Solicitors Partners Tim Cross and Neil Guss explore the practical implications of the new trade union reforms and explain the steps employers should be taking now to prepare.

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Guide to Industrial Action Changes in the Employment Rights Act 2025

Worried about how changes to industrial action will affect your organisation?

This guide examines the main changes regarding industrial action, when they are likely to come into force, and what practical steps employers should be taking to prepare.

Adapting to employment law changes can be
daunting.

At esphr, our team of Employment Lawyers will not only help you stay one step ahead of impending reforms, but will guide you through them.

It’s our mission to advise and develop the employment law capability of HR professionals
wherever we can, helping HR teams make a real commercial difference to their organisations.

That way, you spend less time-solving operational issues and more time actioning projects that drive far-reaching change in your company.

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