UK Employment Rights Act 2025: Advanced
This is the risk and enforcement course for HR leads, senior managers, and owner-managers who carry the legal and financial risk under the Employment Rights Act 2025: mapping the Fair Work Agency's powers, handling the longer tribunal time limits and uncapped awards, defending a complex dismissal claim, running the all-reasonable-steps harassment defence, dealing with void NDAs, protecting maternity returners, and managing board-level risk.
- 3 CPD hours
- eLearning
- Online, self-paced
- About 3 hours, self-paced online
CPD Accredited
CPDAB-A-2026-0052
About this course
This is the risk and enforcement course for HR leads, senior managers, and owner-managers who carry the legal and financial risk under the Employment Rights Act 2025: mapping the Fair Work Agency's powers, handling the longer tribunal time limits and uncapped awards, defending a complex dismissal claim, running the all-reasonable-steps harassment defence, dealing with void NDAs, protecting maternity returners, and managing board-level risk.
The course covers The enforcement machine, Six months to bring a claim, Defending an unfair-dismissal claim, Harassment liability and your defence, When the NDA will not hold, Protecting pregnancy and maternity, and The board-level readiness plan. It is self-paced and online, ends with a short online assessment, and every learner who passes receives a certificate for 3 CPD hours.
It is designed for HR leads, senior managers, and owner-managers who carry the legal and financial risk under the Employment Rights Act 2025.
What you will learn
- Map the Fair Work Agency's enforcement powers, penalties, and inspection scope
- Handle six-month tribunal time limits and uncapped unfair-dismissal awards from January 2027
- Defend complex unfair-dismissal claims with fair process and evidence
- Apply the all-reasonable-steps harassment defence, including third-party exposure
- Address NDAs that are void in harassment and discrimination cases and protect maternity returners
- Build board-level risk control and an organisation-wide readiness plan
Course details
- CPD hours
- 3
- Format
- eLearning
- Delivery
- Online, self-paced
- Duration
- About 3 hours, self-paced online
- Language
- English
- Price
- €300 per person
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