The Employment Rights Bill is currently undergoing scrutiny in the House of Lords. On the 29th April 2025, the Committee stage began with the Government tabling a number of amendments.
The proposed amendments include the following:-
- Adding short notice pay to what can be recovered in an insolvency situation.
- Allowing personal representatives to continue with a claim in the event of the death of a party to it
- Adding an entitlement to guaranteed working hours to the list of what constitutes automatic unfair dismissal
- Recoupment of welfare benefits where a worker is compensated for cancelled or changed shifts, so as to prevent double recovery
- Broadening what qualifies as a shift being ‘moved’ to cover both splitting shifts into separate parts and rescheduling portions for another time
- Annualised hours contracts: a formula for calculating guaranteed hours for those on such contracts
