The ERA 2025 - a planning and readiness guide for employers

Navigating the

Navigating the Employment Rights Act 2025 - A planning and readiness guide for employers Protection against sexual harassment • From 30 October 2026, employers will be required to take all reasonable steps (rather than simply ‘reasonable’ steps) to prevent sexual harassment of their workers in the course of their employment. • Find out more about the reform Update all stakeholders responsible for contributing to your ‘duty to prevent sexual harassment’ risk assessment so they understand the expanded duty. Review your risk assessment with those stakeholders to identify and address any additional reasonable steps you could take to prevent sexual harassment from arising. Update your risk assessment document, as needed, to reflect that you have understood and addressed the need to put in place all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment. Update line manager training provision to reflect the extension of the duty. Update your workforce training provision to reflect the extension of the duty. Notes Burges Salmon 12

Navigating the Employment Rights Act 2025 - A planning and readiness guide for employers Duty to inform your workers of their right to join a trade union • From 30 October 2026, employers will need to inform workers in writing of their right to join a trade union: - at the outset of their employment alongside the s.1 statement of employment particulars; and - at other ‘prescribed times’. • Find out more about the reform Prepare a statement (which may be based on a government-issued standard template). Update your onboarding process to include provision of the statement to new joiners. Consider how to communicate details of the right to join a trade union to existing employees in writing. For example, Intranet, staff noticeboards, directly etc. Once it is published, the government’s consultation response should contain additional detail on how to do this. Introduce a process for issuing ‘reminder statements’ when details confirmed. Notes Burges Salmon 13