We are pleased to introduce our fully online course: Employment Rights Act Awareness Training for Managers.
The Employment Rights Act 2025 represents one of the most significant shifts in UK employment law in recent years. It expands employee rights, removes the compensation cap on certain tribunal awards and applies legal protection from the very start of the employment relationship. Many organisations are still operating on management habits formed before those changes came into force. The gap between current practice and current legal expectation is now a real and measurable source of risk.
This IIRSM-approved course gives every manager with people-management responsibility a clear, structured understanding of which reforms are already in force and which are phased in through 2026 and 2027. It is designed for the broader management population, not just HR. Organisations gain a repeatable tool to bring every manager to the same defensible baseline and record that it has been done.
Under the Act, employment risk arises earlier and costs more when decisions go wrong. Probation, dismissal, flexible working requests, guaranteed hours and harassment prevention all face greater scrutiny from employees, employment tribunals and the new Fair Work Agency, which takes a more active enforcement role than its predecessor.
The practical problem is not that managers are unaware employment law exists. It is that many are working from habits and assumptions that predate the Act. Last-minute rota changes that breach guaranteed hours obligations, dismissal decisions taken close to the six-month qualifying mark without adequate documentation, ad hoc responses to flexible working requests and informal handling of harassment concerns: all now carry substantially higher legal exposure than they once did.
No individual manager’s knowledge closes that gap on its own. Where approaches vary between teams, sites and shifts, the inconsistency weakens the organisation’s position if decisions are later reviewed at tribunal or by the Fair Work Agency. This course replaces variable management practice with a shared, structured baseline, repeatable and defensible.
This training is suitable for anyone with people-management responsibility in UK organisations, with particular relevance where zero-hours, part-time or variable-hours contracts are in use, and where reforms to guaranteed hours, SSP and dismissal rights carry the greatest operational impact.
It is appropriate for:
- Line managers and team leaders
- Business owners and directors
- HR managers and HR advisers
- Operations and department managers
- Supervisors and shift managers
- Office managers and practice managers
By the end of this course, managers will understand:
- Which Employment Rights Act 2025 reforms are already in force and which take effect in 2026 and 2027
- Which day-to-day management decisions carry the greatest legal risk under the new framework
- The correct process for flexible working requests, guaranteed hours obligations and family-friendly leave entitlements, and when to involve HR
- When normal performance management cannot be applied during protected periods and what steps are required before any action is taken
- When dismissal and contract changes carry automatic unfair dismissal risk and how to proceed correctly
- How to apply a proactive approach to preventing sexual harassment, including risks from customers, contractors and third parties
- Which records to keep and the escalation steps that strengthen the organisation’s position if a decision is later challenged
Need to reduce tribunal exposure and give every manager a consistent, documented baseline on the Employment Rights Act 2025? Enrol your team on Employment Rights Act Awareness Training for Managers today. Build practical knowledge of the reforms already in force, the management decisions that now carry the greatest risk and the evidence trail that protects the organisation when those decisions face scrutiny.
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For more details about this course, please contact us.
