Webinar Synopsis — The Employment Rights Act 2025 | Access Learning
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One Law. Five Deadlines. Are Your Managers Ready?
The Employment Rights Act 2025, translated into what your managers actually need to do.
The Employment Rights Act 2025 is the biggest shake-up in UK employment law in a generation. It arrives in stages rather than all at once, with the next deadline landing on 30 October, when every employer must take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment, including from customers and clients. Whether you have a full HR team or you are covering it on your own, we have done the hard part for you.
In 45 minutes, three people who work with this every day will talk through what is changing and how to help your managers actually change what they do: people strategy from Verity O'Brien, employee relations from Sophie Craig and learning design from Beth Harp, who built the training. Knowing the law is the easy part; getting managers to change how they behave is the bit most training misses — and the bit we are best at.
When
17 September 2026 11:00 – 11:45
Format
Live fireside chat online, with Q&A
Length
45 minutes plus questions
What you'll take away
The five key Employment Rights Act deadlines and what each one means in practice, not in legal jargon.
Why 30 October changes the game on harassment prevention and what taking all reasonable steps actually looks like on the ground.
How the January 2027 changes to unfair dismissal and uncapped compensation raise the stakes on probation, performance and how managers exit people.
The practical moves to get managers, policies and training records ready before each deadline.
How expert-led, CPD-certified training helps you evidence that you have acted, whether or not you run a learning platform.
What makes compliance training people actually finish and act on, straight from the designer who built it.
A first look at the new sexual harassment prevention course and how the Employment Rights training fits together.
Who should attend
HR and people directors, L&D managers, compliance and risk leads, and business owners in any sector. Every organisation that employs people is affected, so this session is built to be useful whether you have a full HR function or you are carrying it alongside another role.