Employment Rights Act 2025: Implementation
House of Commons · Written Statements · 30 Jun 2026 · 1 speech · Official Report
The UK Government are today announcing further progress in the implementation of their landmark Employment Rights Act 2025, as part of the plan to make work pay. This update includes the launch of a public consultation on holiday pay compliance and enforcement, and three Government responses-detriments for workers taking industrial action, electronic balloting, and tipping. Further detail on each is provided in this statement. As laid out in the “Implementing the Employment Rights” publication, we will not build a robust and growing economy through employment insecurity. Instead, we are building an economy based on fair competition between businesses, greater productivity in the workplace, job security for workers, and fair reward for hard work. The implementation of the Employment Rights Act is a vital step towards doing this, creating the best environment for doing business, maximising job security to raise productivity, improve skills and cut the costs of staff turnover. Meanwhile, offering opportunity and security for working people requires profitable businesses that are supported to invest and grow. The Government have committed to delivering this change in partnership with businesses, trade unions, public sector employers, and civil society. That is why we are undertaking full and comprehensive consultation with these groups on key changes. By delivering this change together, we are backing businesses that do the right thing and giving hard-working people the job...