Webinar
Employment Rights Bill – HR’s countdown to April 2026
When: 25 November 2025, 11am GMT
Duration: 1 hour
With the Employment Rights Bill expected to receive Royal Assent shortly, HR professionals must ready themselves for the first big tranche of employment law changes taking place in April 2026.
In this webinar, Brightmine editors Stephen Simpson, Zeba Sayed and Robert Shore will explain what these amendments are and what employers can do to prepare for them. Employment law reforms in April 2026 are expected to include:
- Trade union recognition reforms
- Establishment of Fair Work Agency to enforce employment rights
- Increase in protective award for collective redundancy consultation failures
- Addition of sexual harassment to qualifying disclosures for whistleblowing
- Removal of qualifying period for paternity leave and ordinary parental leave
- Changes to eligibility for statutory sick pay (SSP)
We will also briefly look ahead to outline what will happen after April 2026, with the Employment Rights Bill leading to further sweeping updates to employment law in October 2026 and beyond.
This 60-minute webinar includes a Q&A session. To submit your questions in advance, register today.
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When: 25 November 2025, 11am GMT
Duration: 1 hour
More about our contributors
Stephen Simpson
Principal editor – Employment Law and Compliance, Brightmine
Stephen is a principal editor who has worked on the Brightmine employment law and leading practice resources for over 20 years. After growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, he trained as a solicitor in England in the 1990s but soon moved into legal publishing. He was among the first recruits to Brightmine in the year before it was launched as XpertHR in 2002.
Stephen has worked on a wide range of employment law and leading practice resources, including overseeing the creation and expansion of the HR templates resource types (Policies and procedures, Letters and forms, and Contract clauses). He has written up over 1,000 reports on employment law cases and created practical guidance on a range of HR issues for the Commentary & insights tool. He also had a stint working on Personnel Today.
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Zeba Sayed
Senior Legal Editor at Brightmine
Zeba is a former practicing employment solicitor with more than 17 years’ experience in employment law.
Zeba joined Brightmine in 2017 and is a senior legal editor in the employment law and compliance team. In this role, she is responsible for content across Policies and procedures, Letters and forms and Contract clauses. She is also responsible for ensuring that allocated chapters of the employment law guide are kept updated. She has a special interest in the implications of AI in the employment field.
Zeba holds a degree in Law and completed her LPC at the College of Law in Chester. Prior to joining Brightmine, Zeba was an associate solicitor at Lyons Davidson Solicitors in the London office. She advised both individuals and employers on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters and delivered training to clients nationally. Zeba has also worked in conjunction with Acas London to deliver training on their behalf. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
Connect with Zeba on LinkedIn.
Robert Shore
HR Market Insights Editor at Brightmine
Robert Shore, the HR Market Insights Editor at Brightmine. With over two decades of experience in publishing and journalism, Robert brings a wealth of knowledge to his role. Holding a Graduate Diploma in Law, he excels in crafting and curating content for webinars, podcasts, and various resources, including Commentary & Insights and Case Studies.
Robert served as an international employment law editor at Brightmine, where he honed his expertise in global HR practices. Join us as Robert shares his insights into the dynamic world of HR market trends.
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