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Employment Rights Act

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The Employment Rights Bill gained Royal Assent on 18 December 2025.

This act as significant impact on employment law and could negate or change terms within numerous existing contracts of employment.  HR and operational managers need to understand these changes fully and plan accordingly

Our courses on employment law bring you up to date on the latest and pending changes and help you to understand their impact.

JB Sports fined £65000


Worker Protection Act Training - Preventing Sexual Harassment at Work

£65,000 #sexualharassment fine for JB Sports; driven in part from concerns that response and investigation fell short of the required standards.

Training on responding to and investigating sexual harassment could have helped improve support for the victim and may have helped the employer avoid the tribunal all together.

Concrew Training offer a range of courses on preventing sexual harassment at work.  We cover everything from developing policies and procedures to training investigators, managers and staff. Read more

Changes to ACAS Early Conciliation

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As of 01 December 2025 the early conciliation period is increasing from 6 weeks to 12 weeks.

In October 2026 the Employment Rights Bill is expected to increase the time period for bringing an employment tribunal claim from 3 months to 6 months. Read more

Free Information Guides

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Concrew Training publish a wide range of totally free guides to help employers understand complex employment issues better.

These include advice on guidance on a range of issues including, Redundancy, Employee Representation, Sexual Harassment at Work and much more. Read more

Make Work Pay – Have Your Say

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The UK Government is seeking your views and input on a range of matters that will affect the rules your employer has to follow.  Don’t miss your chance to say what you think.

The Government is seeking your views on 4 topics at present, with more to follow. Read more

Redundancy – common mistakes

Employers facing redundancy situations need to get the process right. 

Concrew Training have released two free guides on what can go wrong and common mistakes.  Both help employers follow good practice.  Find them in the free guides section on the Concrew Training web site

sexual harassment at work – tougher laws 2026

Government’s Employment Rights Act requires employers to take ALL reasonable steps to prevent the sexual harassment of their employees whilst at work. 

Current legislation requires employers to take “reasonable steps”, the Employment Rights Bill aims to change this to “all reasonable steps”

It doesn’t sound that different BUT is a significantly higher benchmark.

In the event of tribunal employers will need to be able to evidence that there was absolutely nothing more they could have done to prevent the abuse.

At present having policies and procedures in place could be deemed reasonable.  To reach the higher bar employers will, as a minimum need to ensure

  • policies and procedures are reviewed and updated. regularly and after any occurrence.
  • staff receive annual training and regular reminders, for example through payslips, newsletters, posters.
  • employee representation groups are in place and they include representatives from minority groups
  • every incident or report is fully investigated and processes tightened to prevent recurrence
  • robust investigation procedures are in place 
  • those tasked with investigation have been trained in robust approach and practice
  • all those involved understand the importance of defensible documentation

Concrew Training offer a range of courses on preventing sexual harassment at work.  We cover everything from developing policies and procedures to training investigators, managers and staff.  Buying training and support from us is way way cheaper than the costs associated with incidents and tribunals and helps evidence that all reasonable steps have been taken.

In the event of tribunal employers need to ensure that there is absolutely nothing more they could have done. 

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Employment law changes 2025, 2026, 2027

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The Government’s Employment Rights Bill implementation roadmap sets out when changes to employment rights, enacted through the Act are expected to come into effect.  The Bill is expected to gain Royal Assent in October 2025. Read more