Employment Rights Act 2025

11 Mar 2026 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Act 2025 (Investigatory Powers) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026

Motion to Approve 16:05:00 Moved by Baroness Lloyd of Effra: That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 27 January be approved. Considered in Grand Committee on 9 March. Motion agreed.

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9 Mar 2026 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Act 2025 (Investigatory Powers) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026

Considered in Grand Committee 18:33:00 Moved by Baroness Lloyd of Effra: That the Grand Committee do consider the Employment Rights Act 2025 (Investigatory Powers) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business and Trade and Department …

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18 Dec 2025 | Royal Assent Department for Business and Trade linked

Royal Assent

A Bill to make provision to amend the law relating to employment rights; to make provision about procedure for handling redundancies; to make provision about the treatment of workers involved in the s Originated in the Commons.

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16 Dec 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Commons Reason 15:41:00 Motion A Moved by Baroness Lloyd of Effra: That this House do not insist on its Amendments 120N and 120P to 120S, to which the Commons have disagreed for their Reason 120T. 120T: Because it is appropriate …

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15 Dec 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Returned from the Commons The Bill was returned from the Commons with a reason. House adjourned at 10.07 pm.

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15 Dec 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Consideration of Lords Message Madam Deputy Speaker (Caroline Nokes): Before we commence consideration of the Lords message, I confirm that nothing in the Lords message engages Commons financial privilege. Clause 23 Right not to be unfairly dismissed: removal of qualifying …

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15 Dec 2025 | Bill Department for Business and Trade linked

HL Bill 156 Commons Reason

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10 Dec 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Commons Amendments 16:33:00 Motion A Moved by Baroness Lloyd of Effra: That this House do not insist on its insistence on Lords Amendment 1B in respect of which the Commons have insisted on their disagreement; and do agree with the …

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9 Dec 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Returned from the Commons The Bill was returned from the Commons with amendments.

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8 Dec 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Consideration of Lords message Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani): Before we move to consideration of the Lords message, I can confirm that nothing in the Lords message engages Commons financial privilege. Clause 1 Right to guaranteed hours 18:55:00 The …

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17 Nov 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Commons Amendments and Reasons Relevant documents: 20th and 29th Reports from the Delegated Powers Committee , 7th Report from the Constitution Committee 15:35:00 Motion A Moved by Baroness Lloyd of Effra: That this House do not insist on its Amendment …

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10 Nov 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Returned from the Commons The Bill was returned from the Commons on Wednesday 5 November with reasons and amendments.

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5 Nov 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Consideration of Lords message Madam Deputy Speaker (Judith Cummins): I can inform the House that nothing in the Lords message engages Commons financial privilege. Clause 1 Right to Guaranteed Hours 14:46:00 The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade …

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28 Oct 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Commons Amendments and Reasons Relevant documents: 20th and 29th Reports from the Delegated Powers Committee and 7th Report from the Constitution Committee 15:23:00 Motion A Moved by Lord Collins of Highbury: That this House do not insist on its Amendment …

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16 Sep 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Returned from the Commons The Bill was returned from the Commons with reasons and amendments. House adjourned at 12.51 am.

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15 Sep 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Consideration of Lords amendments Madam Deputy Speaker (Caroline Nokes): I must draw the House’s attention to the fact that Lords amendments 66, 88, 90, 91 and 101 engage Commons financial privilege. If any of those Lords amendments is agreed to, …

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3 Sep 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Third Reading Relevant documents: 20th and 29th Reports from the Delegated Powers Committee and 7th Report from the Constitution Committee. Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland legislative consent granted. 15:52:00 Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms and Chief Whip (Lord …

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23 Jul 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Report (4th Day) 16:39:00 Relevant documents: 20th and 29th Reports from the Delegated Powers Committee and 7th Report from the Constitution Committee . Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Legislative Consent granted. Clause 59: Requirement to contribute to political fund Amendment …

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23 Jul 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Report (4th Day) (Continued) 20:45:00 Clause 113: Power to bring proceedings in employment tribunal Amendment 154 Moved by 154: Leave out Clause 113 Lord Carter of Haslemere (CB): Amendment 154 in my name seeks to remove Clause 113 from the …

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21 Jul 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Report (3rd Day) Relevant documents: 20th and 29th Reports from the Delegated Powers Committee and 7th Report from the Constitution Committee . Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland l egislative c onsent granted. 16:47:00 Amendment 111ZA Moved by 111ZA: After Clause …

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21 Jul 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Report (3rd Day) (Continued) 20:31:00 Amendment 127 not moved. Amendment 127A Moved by 127A: After Clause 54, insert the following new Clause— “Review of the extent and impact of pay inequality(1) The Secretary of State must conduct a review of …

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16 Jul 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Report (2nd Day) 4.33 pm Relevant documents: 20th and 29th Reports from the Delegated Powers Committee , 7th Report from the Constitution Committee Clause 23: Right not to be unfairly dismissed: removal of qualifying period, etc Amendment 49 Moved by …

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14 Jul 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Report (1st Day) Relevant documents: 20th and 29th Report s from the Delegated Powers Committee and 7th Report from the Constitution Committee. Scottish and Northern Ireland l egislative c onsent granted, Welsh l egislative c onsent sought. 15:32:00 Clause 1: …

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14 Jul 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Report (1st Day) (Continued) 21:12:00 Amendment 46 Moved by 46: After Clause 22, insert the following new Clause— “Contractual duties of confidentiality relating to harassment and discrimination(1) The Employment Rights Act 1996 is amended as follows.(2) After section 202 insert—“Harassment …

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2 Jul 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Order of Consideration Motion 15:55:00 Moved by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch: That the amendments for the Report stage be marshalled and considered in the following order: Clauses 1 to 4, Schedule 1, Clauses 5 and 6, Schedule 2, Clauses 7 …

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24 Jun 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (11th Day) Relevant documents: 7th Report from the Constitution Committee and 20th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee . Northern Ireland legislative consent granted. Welsh and Scottish legislative consent sought. 16:49:00 Amendment 310 Moved by 310: After Clause 150, …

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24 Jun 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (11th Day) (Continued) 20:28:00 Amendment 323C Moved by 323C: After Clause 150, insert the following new Clause— “Review of the Act(1) The Secretary of State must—(a) carry out a review of the operation and effect of this Act,(b) set …

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19 Jun 2025 | Impact assessment Department for Business and Trade linked

Will write letters: Letter from Baroness Jones to Baroness Noakes regarding statutory sick pay analysis in the regulatory impact assessment.

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19 Jun 2025 | Impact assessment Department for Business and Trade linked

Will write letters: Letter from Lord Leong to Lord Hunt regarding the committee stage (second day): impact assessment and the Regulatory Policy Committee's rating.

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18 Jun 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (10th Day) Relevant documents: 7th Report from the Constitution Committee and 20th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee . Northern Ireland legislative consent granted. Welsh and Scottish legislative consent sought. 15:52:00 Clause 91: Labour market enforcement strategy Amendment 271ZZA …

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18 Jun 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (10th Day) (Continued) 20:24:00 Amendment 275 Moved by 275: After Clause 140, insert the following new Clause— “Secretary of State: equal pay enforcement function(1) Payroll and other company information required by HMRC for the purposes of taxation may be …

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16 Jun 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (9th Day) 15:17:00 Relevant documents: 7th Report from the Constitution Committee , 20th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee . Northern Ireland legislative consent granted. Welsh and Scottish legislative consent sought. Amendment 247 Moved by 247: After Clause 70, …

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16 Jun 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (9th Day) (Continued) 21:00:00 Amendment 263 Moved by 263: After Clause 86, insert the following new Clause— “Consultation on trade union legislation(1) The Secretary of State must initiate a consultation on the effects of the provisions in Part 4 …

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10 Jun 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (8th Day) 16:15:00 Relevant documents: 7th Report from the Constitution Committee , 20th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee . Northern Ireland legislative consent granted. Welsh and Scottish legislative consent sought. Clause 56: Right of trade unions to access …

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10 Jun 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (8th Day) (Continued) 20:55:00 Clause 60: Deduction of trade union subscriptions from wages in public sector Debate on whether Clause 60 should stand part of the Bill. Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con): My Lords, I rise to express my …

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5 Jun 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (7th Day) Relevant documents: 7th Report from the Constitution Committee , 20th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee . Northern Ireland legislative consent granted . Welsh and Scottish legislative consent sought. 12:28:00 Clause 34: Extension of regulation of employment …

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3 Jun 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (6th Day) Relevant documents: 7th Report from the Constitution Committee , 20th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee . Northern Ireland legislative consent granted . Welsh and Scottish legislative consent sought. 16:19:00 Amendment 129 Moved by 129: After Clause …

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3 Jun 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (6th Day) (Continued) 20:31:00 Amendment 143 Moved by 143: Clause 28, page 50, line 6, at end insert— “(2A) In section 189 (complaint and protective award), after subsection (2) insert—“(2A) Any such declaration may be enforced in the High …

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21 May 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (5th Day) Relevant documents: 7th Report from the Constitution Committee. 20th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee . Northern Ireland legislative consent granted . Welsh and Scottish legislative consent sought. 17:22:00 Amendment 99 Moved by 99: After Clause 22, …

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19 May 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (4th Day) Relevant documents: 7th Report from the Constitution Committee, 20th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee. Northern Ireland legislative consent granted . Welsh and Scottish legislative consent sought. 17:14:00 Clause 19: Employers to take all reasonable steps to …

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19 May 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (4th Day) (Continued) 20:25:00 Amendment 97 Moved by 97: After Clause 22, insert the following new Clause— “Employer duties on harassment: impact assessment(1) The Secretary of State must carry out an assessment of the likely impact of sections 19 …

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13 May 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (3rd Day) Relevant documents: 7th Report from the Constitution Committee, 20th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee. Northern Ireland legislative consent granted, Welsh and Scottish legislative consent sought. 15:41:00 Clause 11: Statutory sick pay in Great Britain: lower earnings …

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13 May 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) 19:12:00 Debate on Amendment 76 resumed. Lord Harlech (Con): My Lords, I support Amendments 127, 128 and 139 in the name of my noble friend Lady Penn. In so doing, I declare my interests as an …

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8 May 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (2nd Day) Relevant documents: 7th Report from the Constitution Committee, 20th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee . Northern Ireland Legislative Consent granted, Welsh and Scottish Legislative Consent sought. 13:03:00 Clause 1: Right to guaranteed hours Amendment 18 Moved …

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29 Apr 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (1st Day) Relevant documents: 7th Report from the Constitution Committee, 20th Report from the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee . Northern Ireland l egislative c onsent granted, Welsh and Scottish l egislative c onsent sought. 15:38:00 Amendment 1 …

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29 Apr 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Committee (1st Day) (Continued) 21:01:00 Amendment 14 Moved by 14: Clause 1, page 4, line 2, at end insert— “(8A) Subsection (8B) applies where—(a) a worker’s contract or arrangement requires an employer to make work available to a worker for …

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27 Mar 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Second Reading 12:55:00 Moved by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch: That the Bill be now read a second time. Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland legislative consent sought The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business and Trade and Department for Science, …

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27 Mar 2025 | Lords stages Department for Business and Trade linked

Lords stages

A Bill to make provision to amend the law relating to employment rights; to make provision about procedure for handling redundancies; to make provision about the treatment of workers involved in the s Originated in the Commons.

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18 Mar 2025 | Impact assessment Department for Business and Trade linked

Economic Analysis and Summary Impact Assessment from the Department for Business and Trade

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14 Mar 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

First Reading 11:47:00 The Bill was brought from the Commons, read a first time and ordered to be printed.

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14 Mar 2025 | Bill Department for Business and Trade linked

HL Bill 81 (as brought from the Commons)

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12 Mar 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

2nd Allocated Day Further consideration of Bill, as amended in the Public Bill Committee [Relevant documents: Third Report of the Business and Trade Committee, Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill, HC 370 ; Second Report of the Women and Equalities …

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12 Mar 2025 | Third reading Department for Business and Trade linked

Third reading

A Bill to make provision to amend the law relating to employment rights; to make provision about procedure for handling redundancies; to make provision about the treatment of workers involved in the s

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11 Mar 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

[1st allocated day] Consideration of Bill, as amended in the Public Bill Committee [Relevant documents: Third Report of the Business and Trade Committee, Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill, HC 370 ; Second Report of the Women and Equalities Committee, …

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11 Mar 2025 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Debate resumed. Gregory Stafford: It is always a pleasure to follow the King. [ Laughter. ] I rise on behalf of my constituents in Farnham, Bordon, Haslemere and Liphook who are opposed to this fundamentally anti-business Bill. Nothing has highlighted …

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11 Mar 2025 | Report stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Report stage

A Bill to make provision to amend the law relating to employment rights; to make provision about procedure for handling redundancies; to make provision about the treatment of workers involved in the s

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26 Nov 2024 | Committee stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Committee stage

A Bill to make provision to amend the law relating to employment rights; to make provision about procedure for handling redundancies; to make provision about the treatment of workers involved in the s

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22 Oct 2024 | Impact assessment Department for Business and Trade linked

Impact assessment Economic Analysis

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21 Oct 2024 | Bill stage Department for Business and Trade linked

Employment Rights Bill

Second Reading Mr Speaker: The reasoned amendment in the name of Kevin Hollinrake has been selected. 16:22:00 The Deputy Prime Minister (Angela Rayner): I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I declare that I …

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21 Oct 2024 | Second reading Department for Business and Trade linked

Second reading

A Bill to make provision to amend the law relating to employment rights; to make provision about procedure for handling redundancies; to make provision about the treatment of workers involved in the s

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10 Oct 2024 | Bill introduced Department for Business and Trade linked

First reading

A Bill to make provision to amend the law relating to employment rights; to make provision about procedure for handling redundancies; to make provision about the treatment of workers involved in the s

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10 Oct 2024 | Bill Department for Business and Trade linked

Bill 011 2024-25 (as introduced)

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