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From 1 December 2025, the period allowed for early conciliation is 12 weeks.

The government has agreed to abandon Day 1 unfair dismissal rights and, instead, have a six-month qualifying period (down from the current 2-year period).

The weekly rates that will apply from April 2026 to statutory maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption, neonatal care pay and parental bereavement pay, as well as statutory sick pay (SSP) are as follows:

Royal Assent for the Employment Rights Bill continues to be delayed.

Freezing tax thresholds, changing the rules on pension salary sacrifice, and increases to the National Minimum Wage headline the 2025 Budget, as it pertains to HR.