Employment Rights Act Awareness Training for Managers (E-learning)
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Employment Rights Act Awareness Training Delivered Online by E-learning
The Employment Rights Act 2025 is one of the most significant overhauls of UK employment law in recent years. It expands employee rights, removes the compensation cap on certain tribunal awards and brings legal protection into play from the very start of the employment relationship.
Managers who rely on informal habits around dismissal, flexible working and harassment prevention now carry substantially higher legal risk, and a new Fair Work Agency takes a more active enforcement role. This course gives UK organisations a consistent, practical foundation — helping managers understand which reforms are already in force, which decisions now carry the greatest exposure and what defensible practice looks like.
Who Is the Employment Rights Act Course For?
This course is for anyone with people-management responsibility in UK organisations, particularly those operating with zero-hours, part-time or variable-hours contracts:
- Line managers and team leaders
- Business owners and directors
- HR managers and HR advisers
- Operations and department managers
- Supervisors and shift managers
- Office managers and practice managers
Why Is Employment Rights Act Training Important?
The Act changes when employment risk arises and what it costs to get decisions wrong. Probation, dismissal, working hours, flexible working and harassment prevention will all face greater scrutiny — from employees, employment tribunals and the new Fair Work Agency.
Many organisations still operate on management habits that predate the Act. Practices that once carried low risk now carry significantly higher exposure:
- Last-minute rota changes that breach guaranteed hours obligations
- Dismissal decisions made close to the six-month qualifying mark without adequate documentation
- Ad-hoc responses to flexible working requests that lack a consistent, recorded process
- Informal handling of harassment concerns that fall short of the new proactive duty
Inconsistency between managers makes it harder to defend decisions if they are later challenged at tribunal or reviewed by the Fair Work Agency.
What's Included in the Employment Rights Act Course?
- Comprehensive yet concise explanation
- Certificate on completion
- Simple login & user access
- The latest industry best practice
Delivery Method
Online / E-learning
Course Duration
50+ minutes
Learning Outcomes
- Identify which Employment Rights Act 2025 reforms are already in force and which take effect in 2026 and 2027
- Recognise which day-to-day management decisions carry the greatest legal risk under the new framework
- Understand the correct process for flexible working requests, guaranteed hours obligations and family-friendly leave entitlements
- Identify when normal performance management cannot be applied during protected periods and what steps are required instead
- Recognise when dismissal and contract changes carry automatic unfair dismissal risk and how to proceed correctly
- Take proactive steps to prevent sexual harassment, including risks from customers, contractors and third parties
- Know which records to keep and the escalation steps that strengthen the organisation's position
Course Content
This online Employment Rights Act Awareness course contains the following modules:
- Overview of the Act
- Pay, Working Hours & Zero-Hours Contracts
- Family-Friendly Leave & Flexible Working
- Pregnancy, Maternity & Family Leave Protections
- Preventing Harassment & Discrimination
- Changing Terms & Conditions (Fire & Rehire)
- Managing Unfair Dismissal
- Other Key Changes to Be Aware Of
- Ensuring Compliance
Assessment
At the end of the course, users must complete an end of course assessment before earning their certification.
The end of course test is:
- 100% online
- Multiple choice
- A score of 80% is required to pass the test.
Certification
An IIRSM-approved downloadable printable certificate is issued instantly on course completion and is valid for three years.
The certificate includes the trainee's name, company name, course name, date of completion, expiry date and the name of the approval body.
Why Choose Employment Rights Act Training with Human Focus?
- Study any time & in bite-size sessions
- Less costly than classroom training
- Discounts on volume purchases
- Excellent trainee support
- Establishes a consistent management baseline across teams, sites and shifts
- Strengthens the organisation's position if decisions are later scrutinised by the Fair Work Agency or an employment tribunal
- Reduces exposure to uncapped tribunal awards by clarifying which decisions carry automatic unfair dismissal risk
Course subtitles are available in over 20 languages, including French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish.
This course provides awareness of key legal duties and good practice. It is not legal advice and does not replace organisation-specific policies, procedures or professional guidance.
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For short courses a completion certificate is available at the end of the course. You can screenshot this or print it out to confirm completion of the training.
For accredited courses a certificate will be sent directly to you from the appropriate awarding body.
All you need to complete our e-learning courses is a computer, tablet or smartphone and an internet connection.
E-learning is flexible, efficient, and cost-effective, meaning you can progress through the modules at your own pace, at your own time to fit the training in around your work and personal life.
Short online courses also help employers to demonstrate that they have fulfilled their legal duties to ensure their personnel have been adequately trained.
Once the courses have been completed, a confirmation of results can be saved or printed as evidence. This can then be kept on record as evidence of suitable training.
- Learning management system that delivers training on laptop, PC or mobile app
- Automatically track all learning via online competency matrix
- Combine all records in one place – upload offline certificates
- Share training records via QR code training passport
You will instantly receive a confirmation email with your order details and your course login details will follow within one business working day.
Please note that course bookings can not be processed outside of normal working hours, over weekends or on bank holidays and will be processed the next business working day.
Step 1
Click the 'Buy' or 'Add to cart' button and you will be taken to our payment/booking page where you can choose to pay online now using a debit/credit card or you can pay later by invoice.
Step 2
Once you have paid for your course(s), you will receive an email from our team advising how to begin your training.
Step 3
You will be provided with a username and password which will enable you to access the e-learning portal. Login to start your course, once you have completed and passed the course, you will be able to download and print your certificate straight away.
Human Focus is a global leader in skilled behaviour change in the workplace.
We assist clients in achieving world-class business performance by helping to build skills and change habits that keep workers safer, healthier and more productive.
We were founded in 1992 and have grown over our 30 years of service to form close working partnerships with leading health and safety organisations, insurance companies and trade associations.
Our e-learning system supports subtitles in multiple languages for all courses. After starting any training module, learners can choose their preferred language for the course. Subtitles in any other language can also be added upon request.
Envico is working in association with Human Focus offering e-learning and is not accredited by or associated with any examination bodies, awarding bodies, institutions or organisations in any way whatsoever.