INTRODUCTION
The Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA or ‘the Act’), passed in December 2025, has repeatedly been declared the ‘biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation’. It might well be noted that this is not a particularly demanding standard to live up to after 14 years of attacks on labour rights under Conservative-led coalition and Conservative Governments. That said, the Act is undoubtedly the single most expansive legislative reform to employment law this century, and arguably the last 50 years. The ERA contains a wide range of reforms to both individual worker rights and collective labour law …
Joe Atkinson, Assessing the Employment Rights Act 2025, King’s Law Journal. Published online: 28 August 2026.
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