Your guide to The Employment Rights Act 2025

This guide is written by Jonathan Rennie and Elizabeth Johnson, Employment Lawyers at Level, and provides clear, practical commentary to help employers understand what is changing, when it is happening, and how to prepare.

This guide explains:

• The implementation timeline and what happens when

• The move to six-month unfair dismissal rights

• The abolition of “fire and rehire” practices (subject to narrow exceptions)

• The diminishing enforceability of NDAs in discrimination and harassment cases

• Expanded family-friendly rights and bereavement leave

• Day-one Statutory Sick Pay reforms

• Increased employer liability for third-party harassment

• Employer responsibilities in preventing sexual harassment