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The Employment Rights Act 2025: A Practitioners Guide

A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR LEGAL ADVISERS, EMPLOYERS AND HR PROFESSIONALS

A practical guide to the Employment Rights Act 2025 for UK law firms and corporate HR and legal teams. It provides detailed analysis of the major reforms—including unfair dismissal, contractual probation, guaranteed hours, shift rights, harassment prevention, collective redundancy, fire and rehire, trade union law and the Fair Work Agency—together with worked scenarios and practical implementation guidance. The guide clearly distinguishes current legal obligations from reforms awaiting commencement or further regulations.

Author
Lex HR
Format
PDF
Length
300 pages
Published
August 2026
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The Lex HR team has founded, edited and led some of the best-known information businesses serving law firms — and many of the titles they launched were the first of their kind for the profession. Lex Books applies that same editorial standard to employment law and HR, backed by the Lex HR research base.

Jason Schofield, Managing Editor, Lex Books

Jason Schofield

Managing Editor, Lex Books

Product Director, Lex HR

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Thirty years commissioning and editing for the legal profession. As Editorial Director at Ark Group — later acquired by Wilmington plc — he launched industry-first titles including Managing Partner, KM Legal, Legal Marketing and FD Legal, alongside books such as Coldrick on Care Home Fees. At Legal Monitor, acquired by Law Business Research, he ran product for an AI/ML platform analysing legal recruitment, retention and people data across global law firms. He now leads product at Lex HR and edits the Lex Books programme.

  • Wilmington plc
  • Law Business Research
  • Lex HR
  • Lex Books
David Kekwick, Publisher, Lex Books

David Kekwick

Publisher, Lex Books

CEO, Lex HR

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Three decades building legal information businesses. He founded Ark Group and grew it into a global knowledge management and events business, acquired by Wilmington plc, and served as Group MD of Informa Law & Practice. He then founded Legal Monitor, an AI/ML platform on global law firms acquired by Law Business Research. He is co-founder of Lex HR and publisher of Lex Books.

  • Ark Group
  • Informa
  • Wilmington plc
  • Law Business Research
  • Lex HR

Three decades of launching titles for the legal profession, now applied to employment law and HR practice. See the publications

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