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Employment Rights Act 2025

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The Employment Rights Act 2025, part of the Labour government’s pledge to “Make Work Pay”, represents the biggest overhaul of employment rights in decades. The legislation received Royal Assent towards the end of December 2025, meaning it is now “law”.

Between 2026 and 2027, any company who has employees, uses temporary workers, or supplies temporary workers, will be affected by at least some of these changes. Here is an overview of the changes with an emphasis on employers. Here is an overview of the changes with an emphasis on recruitment agencies supplying temporary workers to end clients.

Umbrella company non-compliance

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The government has released draft legislation to introduce joint and several liability for agencies & consultancies using non-compliant umbrella companies. These changes come into effect on 6th April 2026.

If you use any umbrella companies, PEOs, EoRs or similar, these changes will affect you. My thoughts on the draft legislation and next steps are here.

Employment Rights Bill – Implementation timeline

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The government has released a timeline for expected “go-live” dates for many of the measures in the Employment Rights Bill, which is in the final stages of the parliamentary process. To save you having to trawl through yourselves, I’ve drafted a briefing document here.

Thankfully, two of the most impactful changes – the introduction of unfair dismissal rights from Day 1 of employment, and changes to zero hour contracts – aren’t likely to be introduced until 2027. But there are still alot of new measures going live between now and then.

The government will also release quite a few consultations during the rest of 2025 (details towards the end of the briefing document) so get involved if you can and give your feedback!

Off-Payroll: where are we 3 months later?

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One of my lovely clients, Intuitive Interim & Executive Search asked me to participate in the FIRST of its “Intuitive Experts” vlog series. A very proud moment for me I must say!

We’re discussing the Off-Payroll Rules 3 months on from go-live. A quick overview of the rules, the significant market reactions and answering some questions submitted by Intuitive’s clients and contractors.

The video is here – enjoy!

Tax Risk Assessments

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Not an exciting topic I know, but important all the same. Since the implementation of the Criminal Finances Act in 2017, and the ever-increasing burden of tax legislation and regulation on staffing businesses generally, the obligation to regularly assess and mitigate risk is no longer a “nice to have”.

But there’s very little guidance on how to complete a tax risk assessment, so I decided to give you all some practical hints and tips. Good luck!

IR35N Think Tank

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I’ve been incredibly lucky to participate in a number of Think Tank roundtables, hosted by IR35 Navigator, discussing the future of recruitment agencies, contractor engagement models, new trends, and of course the Off-Payroll Rules (since we are all consumed by that subject in the run up to April!). 

Here are some of the snapshots from those sessions. As always, any feedback you have is greatly appreciated!

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Outsourced services vs staffing

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I was asked by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) to participate in their 2020 conference which was very nice of them! I decided to do a short(ish) video all about the difference between temporary recruitment and outsourced services, and it was included in the conference as a bitesize learning session.

The video also includes some practical tips and advice for any staffing businesses who are interested in offering SOW services to clients.

As always, if you have any feedback please let me know via the contact page.

Enjoy!