It takes more than a handbook: what the Employment Rights Act requires of your managers

The Employment Rights Act is already law, and when a tribunal looks at how your organisation handled a harassment complaint or a dismissal in month three, it will not ask what your policy said. It will ask what you did.

In this webinar, Sophie Craig (Senior Employee Relations Advisor), Verity O'Brien (Global Employee Success Director) and Beth Harp (Learning Designer) walk through the key ERA dates and what the changes mean for the people managing your teams day to day. They make the case for why the shift from a compliance test to a management test changes what good preparation looks like.

If you are an HR professional or people manager responsible for how your organisation responds to the changes, this is for you.

Key topics covered

Key ERA dates and what changes when: October 2026 and January 2027
Third-party harassment and what "reasonable steps" means beyond having a policy
Fire and rehire: the new restrictions on changing contractual terms
Unfair dismissal: the move to a six-month qualifying period and the removal of the compensation cap
Probation, record keeping and manager capability in the first six months
Why tick-box training is not a tribunal defence, and what behaviour-changing e-learning looks like
Three actions to take today

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