• Exploitative use of zero hours contracts ended

• New collective redundancy consultation threshold introduced

• Gender pay gap and menopause action plans  

• New rights for pregnant workers

• Flexible working changes

• Bereavement leave introduced

• Duty to inform workers of their right to join a trade union introduced

• Employers required to take “all reasonable steps” to prevent sexual harassment of their employees and third-party harassment prohibited

• New rights and protections for trade union representatives introduced

• Employment Tribunal time limits extended

• Collective redundancy protective award maximum period doubled

• Day-one paternity leave and unpaid parental leave introduced

• Bereaved partners’ paternity leave introduced

• Fair Work Agency established

• Statutory Sick Pay lower earnings limit and waiting period removed

• Trade union recognition process simplified

Consultations include:

• Collective redundancy

• Flexible working

A number of trade union changes including a reduction in the notice for industrial action to 10 days, mandates valid for 12 months and simplification of industrial action notices.

• Qualifying period for unfair dismissal reduced to six months

• Fire and rehire restrictions introduced

Royal Assent given and Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 repealed

Consultations included:

• Bereavement leave

• Rights for pregnant workers

• Rights of trade unions to access workplaces

• Duty to inform workers of their right to join a trade union

Following conclusion of the first round of debates in the House of Commons, debates commence in the House of Lords

Government response to consultations on:

• Strengthening statutory sick pay

• Strengthening remedies against abuse of rules on collective redundancy and fire and rehire

• The application of zero hours contracts measures to agency workers

• Creating a modern framework for industrial relations