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Stakeholder feedback on removing the unfair dismissal compensation cap: business impacts, high-earning roles, and calls for tribunal guidance and Dispute Resolution System reform under the Employment Rights Act 2025
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has published a summary of views expressed by stakeholders at roundtables held in January and February 2026 on changes to unfair dismissal under the Employment Rights Act 2025. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has released an overview of stakeholder opinions gathered during roundtable sessions in January and February 2026 concerning reforms to unfair dismissal provisions within the Employment Rights Act 2025......
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UK employment law update: fit note overhaul, WorkWell pilots, fixed-term training EAT ruling, digital right to work policy, EHRC code update, corporate liability expansion, tribunal reform-28 May 2026
In this issue: Horizon scanning Status and worker categories Recruitment Benefits Prohibited conduct Prohibited conduct protection at work Corporate governance Employment Tribunals Dates for your diary Trackers Employment resources on Lexis+® LexTalk®Employment: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Horizon scanning Government announces overhaul of fit note system and publishes call for evidence results The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) have released the findings of a call for evidence on fit notes, and confirmed four pilot projects in parts of England designed to address the ‘broken’ fit note system. Run by the previous government from April to July 2024, the evidence call drew 1,959 responses. It assessed how the current fit note arrangements shape work and health...
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NDAs after the Victims and Courts Act 2026: voiding clauses that restrict disclosures of criminal conduct or responses, interaction with the iniquity rule, and drafting steps for commercial agreements
Section 6 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 supersedes VPA 2024, s 17, scrapping the prior constraint that protected disclosures had to be made to particular recipients for specified purposes. Any term in any agreement, including commercial non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), is void to the extent it seeks to stop a victim, or someone who reasonably believes they are a victim, from revealing relevant criminal conduct-or the counterparty’s reaction to it-to anyone, for any purpose. The new provision binds the Crown, subject only to a tightly drawn national security exception. This analysis examines how these reforms align with existing common law limits on confidentiality and their consequences for standard commercial NDA templates. It is written by Richard Hanstock, a barrister at Cornerstone Barristers and the founder of Deeptech Legal, an SRA-authorised firm specialising in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, defence technology and national security...
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From directing mind to senior managers: UK corporate criminal liability, enforcement trends and governance imperatives under the Crime and Policing Act 2026
CPA 2026 materially widens corporate criminal exposure by extending attribution for all offences to conduct by ‘senior managers’ exercising significant decision-making power. This moves risk beyond the narrow ‘directing mind’ test and brings companies-particularly large, decentralised groups-under sharper enforcement scrutiny. Expect prosecutors to probe operational leadership, governance gaps and aggregate evidence across individuals. Boards should revisit delegation, clarify accountability and reinforce oversight of operational choices. A continuing hurdle is pinpointing who is a senior manager in complex structures, with courts likely to prioritise substance over form. More broadly, the regime will reshape how organisations record authority, decisions and escalation, with greater emphasis on demonstrating how choices are taken and supervised in practice. A reshaped strategic risk profile The most immediate effect of CPA 2026 is a broader range of situations in which a company can be criminally liable. Historically, attribution turned on the...
Share purchases: employment issues—overview
When someone seeks to buy a business, there are two principal routes available: the purchaser can acquire the whole of the issued share capital of the company that owns the business (a ‘share purchase’), or acquire the bundle of assets that make up the undertaking, which may include, for example, machinery, equipment, property, intellectual property rights, employees and contracts (an ‘asset purchase’). In a share purchase, the buyer takes the company as it stands, ‘warts and all’. The company continues as the employer and contracts of employment are unchanged, without interruption or alteration. Subject to a few narrow exceptions, the company’s existing and future rights, obligations, powers and liabilities towards former, current and prospective employees are not altered by the change of ownership. If the company has a subsidiary, the same principles will apply to that subsidiary’s relationship with its employees, if any. By contrast, if the buyer proceeds by means of an asset purchase, the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE 2006), SI 2006/246 will probably apply, in most cases. TUPE 2006’s principal effect is that the employees assigned to the business immediately before completion of the acquisition move automatically to the buyer. While there are...
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