{"id":11027,"date":"2025-03-25T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brightmine.com\/uk\/?post_type=resources&p=11027"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:29:21","slug":"april-2025-employment-law-changes","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/www.brightmine.com\/uk\/resources\/hr-compliance\/employment-law-updates\/april-2025-employment-law-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2025 employment law changes: Five-point checklist for HR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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by Stephen Simpson<\/strong>, Brightmine Principal Editor – Employment Law and Compliance<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

While the introduction of neonatal care leave and pay is the key change for HR professionals to get to grips with, there are other employment law changes in April 2025. These include increases to the national minimum wage rates; a rise in statutory redundancy pay; and the uprating of statutory sick pay and family-related pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

30 March \/ 4 April: Publish your gender pay gap report<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Organisations have 12 months to publish their gender pay gap figures from the relevant snapshot date – 31 March for the public sector and 5 April for the private and voluntary sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that the gender pay gap reporting deadline is 30 March 2025 for public-sector employers and 4 April 2025 for private-sector and voluntary-sector employers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organisations must publish reports on their website and upload the information to the gender pay gap reporting portal on the GOV.UK website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employers can choose to provide a narrative around any gender pay gap, including providing an explanation for their pay gap and setting out what steps they are taking to reduce the gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1 April: Comply with national minimum wage rises<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The rates of the national minimum wage increase on 1 April 2025, including an increase of the main national minimum wage (the national living wage) from \u00a311.44 to \u00a312.21 per hour. In addition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n