Employment Rights Act readiness
Employment reform arrives in stages rather than on one day, and the practical work is the same each time: a policy that has to change, people who have to be told, and a record that it happened.
What the law requires
The Employment Rights Act 2025 makes substantial changes to employment law in Great Britain, and its provisions are being brought into force in stages by regulations rather than all at once. The detail of several measures is being settled through consultation and secondary legislation. What that means practically is that the duties applying to any given employer change over a period, and each change tends to require a policy update, a communication to staff, and a record of both.
Legislation referred to on this page: Employment Rights Act 2025 · Employment Rights Act 1996. Named so you can read the source. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and whether a duty applies to your organisation is a question for you and your adviser.
Who it applies to
- Employers in Great Britain, with the detail and the timing depending on the measure and on the regulations that commence it.
- Because commencement is staged, the useful question is not "are we compliant" but "which duties are in force now, and what did we do about the last one".
- This page describes how to keep records against duties as they commence. It is not a summary of the Act and it is not advice on what any provision requires of you.
What you have to be able to show
The list an inspector, insurer or auditor actually works through.
- Current policies, with approval dates that postdate the change they respond to.
- Evidence that staff were told, and who acknowledged it.
- Contracts and written statements reflecting the position now in force.
- Training for managers where a duty changes what they must do.
- A record of when you reviewed each duty, even where you concluded nothing changed.
How DutyHub records it
DutyHub does not carry out any of the work below. It records who did, when, and what they found.
Duties that appear when they commence
A duty arrives on the register with its own date. Nothing turns red before a duty is in force, and nothing quietly fails to appear once it is.
Policies as controlled documents
Approved by a named person, effective from a date, with acknowledgement fanned out to staff — including people with no account, by link.
The review you did anyway
Recording "we looked at this and nothing changed for us" is the evidence that is normally missing, so the register keeps it as a dated decision.
Start with what applies to you
Add your premises and answer a short set of questions about them. DutyHub works out which duties land on which building, and shows you the gaps before anybody else finds them.
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