HR Connect updates - 13 March 2026

13 March 2026

The latest update from HR Connect includes the launch of the Employment Rights Act 2025 Implementation and Training Service; and a consultation on threshold for triggering collective redundancy obligations.

Employment Rights Act 2025 Implementation and Training Service launched

The Employment Rights Act 2025 sees the biggest changes to employment law in years being rolled out across the UK, and school leaders are required to understand and implement all the changes it introduces correctly, with confidence and in accordance with the roadmap timeline.

To help schools and trusts stay compliant without losing hours of your day wading through dense guidance, HR Connect and Legal Connect has launched a new Employment Rights Act 2025 Implementation and Training Service tailored to the education sector.

March 2026 releases:

Employment Rights Act 2025 - stay ahead of the April changes.
Practical considerations of changes to the law of unfair dismissal, performance reviews and managing probationary periods.

April to July 2026 releases:

Practical look at the enhanced Duty to Prevent Sexual Harassment.
Practical look at the workings of the Fair Work Agency and changes to Employment Tribunal Limits.
Introduction of liability for Third Party Harassment: Understanding your responsibilities and practical considerations.
Changes to the Trade Union Landscape including the new duty for employers to inform workers of their right to join a trade union, and updated rules on a trade union’s right of access to the workplace.
Restrictions and Changes to the Fire and Rehire Process.

For more information and to order the service, visit the HR Connect website:

News: Consultation on threshold for triggering collective redundancy obligations has been published

Currently, employers are only required to undertake collective redundancy obligations when making 20 or more redundancies at one establishment. The Government has raised a concern 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.

As a result 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 via consultation which went live on 25th February, on the level and methods by which the new organisation-wide threshold for triggering collective redundancy obligations might be set.