Employment Rights Act 2025

Employment Rights Act 2025
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act 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 supply of services under certain public contracts; to provide for duties to be imposed on employers in relation to equality; to amend the definition of “employment business” in the Employment Agencies Act 1973; to provide for the establishment of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body and the Social Care Negotiating Bodies; to amend the Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023; to make provision for the implementation of international agreements relating to maritime employment; to make provision about trade unions, industrial action, employers’ associations and the functions of the Certification Officer; to make provision about the enforcement of legislation relating to the labour market; and for connected purposes.
Citation	2025 c. 36
Introduced by	Jonathan Reynolds, Secretary of State for Business and Trade (Commons); Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Legislation (Lords)
Territorial extent	Great Britain (most parts); England and Wales (part 3); United Kingdom (clause 25 of part 2; parts 5 and 6)
Dates
Royal assent	18 December 2025
Other legislation
Amends	Seafarers Wages Act 2023; Procurement Act 2023; Trade Union Act 2016; Equality Act 2010; Employment Relations Act 1999; Employment Rights Act 1996; Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992;
Repeals/revokes	Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023; Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Act 2023;
Status: Current legislation
History of passage through Parliament
Text of the Employment Rights Act 2025 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

The Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), also known as the Workers' Rights Bill and simply the Employment Bill, is a bill of the Government of the United Kingdom introduced to the House of Commons by the Labour government of Keir Starmer in 2024 which aims to modernise employment law and strengthen worker's rights and trade union rights in Scotland, England and Wales. It will ban "exploitative" zero-hour contracts, fire and rehire and create the Fair Work Agency.