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The Employment Rights Act 2025 provides new protection for workers against detriments that they are subjected to by their employer to penalise, prevent or deter them from taking official industrial action.

The Act enables Government to set out the detriments which are to be prohibited in regulations.

This consultation invites views from trade unions, employers, workers, and other interested parties, on what those prohibited detriments should be.

Seeking views on a new process for employers to follow when handling flexible working requests, as well as insights on flexible working practices more broadly. 

Seeking views on proposals to improve the framework which governs the temporary labour market to better protect workers while minimising business burdens. 

Collective redundancy obligations are an important part of ensuring a fair and transparent process when employers need to make redundancies.

Currently, employers are only required to undertake collective redundancy obligations when making 20 or more redundancies at one establishment. This has led to situations where large numbers of employees at an organisation are not being consulted because the redundancies are spread across multiple sites below the current threshold.

The Employment Rights Act 2025 will introduce new protections so that employers will be required to undertake collective redundancy consultation and notification whenever they make a threshold number of redundancies across their entire organisation.

The government is seeking views on the level and methods by which the new organisation-wide threshold for triggering collective redundancy obligations might be set.

The government is considering 2 options to set the new organisation-wide threshold:

using a single fixed number in the range of 250 to 1,000

tiering this new obligation based on number of employees

These proposals will need approval from Parliament before taking effect.

Call for Evidence opens today for public to share their experiences and knowledge of Personal 

Independence Payment (PIP) 

Views sought from disabled people of all ages as well as organisations that represent them, carers, clinicians, experts and MPs 

Evidence will inform the Timms Review of PIP, due to report in the autumn, to ensure the benefit is fair and fit for the future

The Commission on Adult Social Care wants to hear from you. You may want to tell us about your personal experiences of how the system works today – good and bad – and also ideas about how it could be improved.

This page is for anyone – whether you use care and support, work in care, are from an organisation that provides care or works to improve it or you just want to share your thoughts as in interested citizen. We’d like to hear your experiences in your own words and learn what matters most to you.