Employment Rights Act 2025

The Employment Rights Act 2025 will extend time limits for bringing tribunal claims from three to six months.

Currently, most tribunal claims need to be brought within three months of the act complained of. A pledge to increase tribunal time limits was included in the Labour Party’s Plan to Make Work Pay:

‘We will improve and strengthen enforcement through employment tribunals to provide quicker and more effective resolutions. In line with the Law Commission recommendation in April 2020, we would increase the time limit within which employees are able to make an employment claim from three months to six months, bringing the time limit for all claims in line with the time limit for statutory redundancy and equal pay claims.’

All employees will have six months to bring a claim. This will apply to all types of claims, including discrimination claims and unfair dismissal claims (except for breach of contract claims arising or outstanding on termination of employment).

The government's implementation roadmap states that this change will 'take effect no earlier than October 2026'.