If you’re a local government or public sector employer, the new Employment Rights Act 2025 is going to keep your legal and HR teams very busy.

On 2 February 2026 the Government issued the outcome of the LGPS: Access and fairness consultation (“Consultation”).

We review the Employment Appeal Tribunals decision in Alpha Anne & Others v Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.

The Court of Appeal has handed down it’s Judgment in the case of Bicknell and the BMA v NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB.

In BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd v Unite the Union, the High Court dismissed an application by BAE Systems (BAE) for an interim injunction to prevent strike action by members of the trade union, Unite, over a pay dispute.

The Employment Tribunals (Early Conciliation: Exemptions and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 were laid yesterday to extend the Acas Early Conciliation period from six weeks to twelve weeks with effect from 1 December 2025.

The government issued a consultation proposing significant changes to how pension rights are protected for staff working in local government and those that have been transferred from local government employment to provide outsourced services.

On 6 October 2025, in the case of Henderson v GCRM Ltd and ors, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that in a whistleblowing claim.

Judgment was handed down on 31 July 2025 in the High Court in the case of MN v NHS Foundation Trust L (‘the Trust’).

On 7 July 2025, the Government took its last opportunity to table amendments to the Employment Rights Bill, following weeks of analysis by the House of Lords during the Committee Stage.

Further to our recent insight on the Immigration White Paper, the government has now published a Statement of changes to the immigration rules: HC 997, 1 July 2025 - GOV.UK, which starts to implement the first changes proposed in the White Paper.

The government’s immigration White Paper Restoring control over the immigration system May 2025 was published in May 2025 and sets out significant proposals to control immigration and promote growth.