Employment Rights Bill – amendment paper

03 December 2024

 

• On 27 November 2024 Government published an amendment paper to the Employment Rights Bill. 
 
• Labour’s manifesto pledge to “Make Work Pay” includes a monumental proposal to increase the time limit within which employees can bring employment claims from three months to six months. 

 

  • There are some exceptions, however generally employees have three months to being a claim to the Employment Tribunal from the act they are complaining about. The changes mean employees will have six months to bring all types of employment claims.
  • We understand that employees will still need to complete ACAS’ Early Conciliation before issuing claims. 

• There has been clarification that the statutory probationary period that Government promised to introduce in order to mitigate the impact of unfair dismissal becoming a day one right, must be between three and nine months.

 
See the amendment paper here.

See our original news on the Employment Rights Bill here.