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We recently hosted an insightful webinar looking at some of the most significant changes for employers and in-house lawyers contained in the Employment Rights Bill (ERB).

You can  or read on for the key learnings from the session.

Employment Rights Bill: What’s in store for employers?

Cathy Hoar, a solicitor and professional support lawyer in Lexis+ UK Employment, was joined by Stephen Ratcliffe, a partner in the Employment and Compensation team at Baker & McKenzie. Cathy and Stephen discussed what is currently known about the proposed changes, looking at the ERB itself and sources such as the government’s policy paper.

Cathy and Stephen discussed proposed changes to the following:

• the qualifying period for unfair dismissal and initial periods of employment (probationary periods)
• the right to guaranteed hours for workers on ‘zero hours’ contracts, or contracts with a low number of guaranteed hours
• changes to provisions in the Equality Act 2010 dealing with harassment
• enforcement of Labour Market Legislation (the Fair Work Agency)
• protection against ‘fire and re-hire’

View employment practice notes, precedents and news articles

There was also time for a ‘Q&A’, in which Cathy and Stephen answered a number of related questions, including on sexual harassment risk assessments.

Subscribers to Lexis+ UK Employment can find information on the progress of the ERB in Practice Note: .

Subscribers can also find a ‘toolkit’ of Precedent materials relating to sexual harassment risk assessments (referred to in the Q&A  in our subtopic.

Want to hear more from the speakers?   to catch up and hear the full discussion.

View employment practice notes, precedents and news articles