Guidance

Employment Rights Bill: impact assessments

Impact assessments and analytical documents relating to the Employment Rights Bill.

• From: Department for Business and Trade, Cabinet Office, Department for Transport and Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 21 October 2024

Read further documents in support of the Employment Rights Bill.

Employment Rights Bill: economic analysis and summary impact assessment

Employment Rights Bill economic analysis (PDF, 2.69 MB, 107 pages)

Department for Business and Trade (DBT) impact assessments

Impact assessment: Making flexible working the default (PDF, 529 KB, 32 pages)

Impact assessment: Protections against dismissal for pregnant workers (PDF, 405 KB, 31 pages)

Impact assessment: Dismissal for failing to agree to variation of contract (fire and rehire) (PDF, 611 KB, 43 pages)

Impact assessment: Day 1 unfair dismissal rights (PDF, 586 KB, 35 pages)

Impact assessment: Establish a fair pay agreements process in the adult social care sector (PDF, 761 KB, 30 pages)

Impact assessment: Repeal of the Trade Union Act 2016 (PDF, 588 KB, 42 pages)

Impact assessment: Repeal the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (PDF, 417 KB, 30 pages)

Impact assessment: Strengthening workers’ rights to trade union access, recognition and representation (PDF, 630 KB, 47 pages)

Impact assessment: strengthening collective redundancy rights (PDF, 436 KB, 28 pages)

Impact assessment: Whistleblowing protections against sexual harassment (PDF, 356 KB, 21 pages)

Impact assessment: ZHCs - Right to Guaranteed Hours (PDF, 498 KB, 37 pages)

Impact assessment: ZHCs - Right to Reasonable Notice of Shift Patterns and Payment for Shifts Cancelled, Moved or Curtailed at Short Notice (PDF, 517 KB, 35 pages)

Impact assessment: Strengthen existing tipping law (PDF, 274 KB, 21 pages)

Impact assessment: Establish the Fair Work Agency (FWA) to bring together existing state enforcement functions (PDF, 797 KB, 27 pages)

Impact assessment: Day 1 right to paternity leave and unpaid parental leave (PDF, 611 KB, 36 pages)

Impact assessment: New right to unpaid bereavement leave (PDF, 668 KB, 38 pages)

Cabinet Office impact assessments

Impact assessment: Enabling regulations to specify specific steps employers must take to prevent sexual harassment (PDF, 321 KB, 43 pages)

Impact assessment: Ensuring outsourced workers are included in gender pay gap reporting (PDF, 320 KB, 35 pages)

Impact assessment: Require employers to take “all reasonable steps” to prevent sexual harassment of their employees (PDF, 323 KB, 40 pages)

Impact assessment: Requiring employers to not permit the harassment of their employees by third parties (PDF, 357 KB, 39 pages)

Impact assessment: Requiring large employers to publish Equality Action Plans (PDF, 336 KB, 40 pages)

Department for Transport impact assessment

Impact assessment: Declaring collective redundancy for seafarers (PDF, 241 KB, 16 pages)

Department for Work and Pensions impact assessment

Impact assessment: Improve access to Statutory Sick Pay by removing the Lower Earnings Limit and removing the waiting period (PDF, 522 KB, 36 pages)

Published 21 October 2024