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Employment Rights Act 2025

A CPD Programme for employers across Education, Charities, Voluntary & Community Sector and all public sector organisations

The Employment Rights Act 2025 and related reforms are raising the bar for leadership practice.

This CPD programme equips senior leaders, managers, trustees and HR professionals with the skills required to meet new legal expectations with Equality, Diversity and Inclusion embedded.

Employment reform now demands:

  • Stronger documentation and evidence
  • Day-one fairness in decision-making
  • Proactive harassment prevention
  • Confident management of flexible working
  • Equality-aware restructures
  • Governance oversight of people risk

This is not about updating policies. It is about strengthening leadership capability.

Employment Rights Act 2025 Training Course

This course is available as an In-House Course

Programme Overview

Flexible Delivery | Sector-Specific

Delivered as organisation tailored sessions, and based on your requirements/needs recorded in the pre-training survey, we will deliver full-day or half day sessions

Content

Employment Rights Act 2025: What Has Changed?

  • Day-one rights and probation management
  • Flexible working reforms
  • Family leave and absence changes
  • Strengthened unfair dismissal protections
  • Trade union and consultation developments
  • Legal risk trends in tribunals

EDI Focus: Understanding disproportionate impact and discrimination risk in early employment decisions.

Fair Process Under Scrutiny

  • Lawful disciplinaries and capability
  • Grievance handling
  • Investigations that withstand challenge
  • Reasonable adjustments in process
  • Documentation standards
  • Evidence standards

EDI Focus: Bias-aware decision-making and intersectional analysis in people management.

Preventing Sexual Harassment: The Proactive Duty

  • Understanding the preventative legal duty
  • Risk assessment frameworks
  • Culture and reporting mechanisms
  • Leadership accountability
  • Board oversight responsibilities

EDI Focus: Psychological safety, power dynamics and protected characteristics.

Managing Absence, Disability and Flexible Working

  • Applying family-friendly rights
  • Disability discrimination risks
  • Reasonable adjustments in practice
  • Managing long-term absence fairly
  • Hybrid and flexible arrangements

EDI Focus: Avoiding indirect discrimination and ensuring consistency.

Restructure, Change and Consultation

  • Lawful restructure processes
  • Consultation obligations
  • Redundancy fairness
  • Equality Impact Assessments
  • Managing funding uncertainty within VCS settings

EDI Focus: Embedding EIAs in workforce planning and organisational change.

Governance, Risk and Leadership Culture

  • Trustee and board responsibilities
  • Data monitoring and workforce analysis
  • Equality metrics in people strategy
  • Creating an inclusive employment culture
  • Linking EDI to organisational resilience

EDI Focus: Embedding fairness as a strategic risk management tool.

Who should attend

  • Chief Executives and Principals
  • HR Leads
  • Senior Leaders
  • Line Managers
  • Trustees and Governors
  • Operations Managers
  • Charity Directors

What Participants Gain

  •  Confidence in applying new employment law
  •  Stronger documentation and evidence practice
  •  Reduced tribunal and reputational risk
  •  Practical tools and templates
  •  Equality-embedded leadership skills
  •  Greater organisational resilience

Cost

In House Course

Half Day: £595 £495 for bookings received before 31 May 2026

Full Day: £895

Courses run via Zoom
Recommended maximum 10 delegates per session - up to 15 if required

Face to Face courses:
Maximum 20 delegates per session

Travel costs are in addition for face to face courses.
Please see our Costs and Agreement

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Podcast

Empoyment Rights Act 2025 Podcast

The Employment Rights Act is raising big questions for employers, HR teams, and compliance professionals.

To help, we’ve put together a podcast that answers key questions about the Act, including what it means for; family rights, probation periods, annualised hours contracts, unfair dismissal, and how employers should respond when staff raise concerns.

In the Podcast, we answer questions on:

  1. Day One Rights
  2. Annualised hours/contracts
  3. Probation period
  4. Protection for employees
  5. Sick Pay, Overtime, Practical changes
  6. Third Party Harassment
  7. Redundancy, Contracts, Status,
  8. Equality, Reasonable Adjustment
  9. Enforcement

When listening to this Podcast we hope that you find that it is a useful way to get clarity on some of the biggest areas of uncertainty.

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