Actions for employers

 Conduct comprehensive compliance audits
Review all current employment practices against known Bill requirements, with particular focus on third party harassment, zero hours contracts, shift scheduling arrangements, dismissal procedures, and collective redundancy tracking systems. Identify gaps between current practice and anticipated obligations.

 Engage actively in government consultations
Participate in ongoing consultations on zero-hours workers calculation mechanics, reasonable notice thresholds, union access timelines, and sectoral exemptions. Consultation responses should be evidence-based and demonstrate practical operational constraints.

 Review and restructure zero hours and low hours arrangements
Audit all workers on zero hours or low hours contracts to understand potential guaranteed hours obligations. Assess whether current HR systems can track reference periods, calculate averages, and generate compliant offers within statutory deadlines.

 Prepare for enhanced union access and recognition
Develop strategies for responding to union access requests within compressed statutory timelines. Review employee communications to ensure compliance with unfair practices prohibitions whilst maintaining legitimate business engagement.

 Map multi-site operations for redundancy aggregation
Implement tracking systems to monitor dismissals across the organisation over rolling 90 day periods.

 Assess restructuring plans against fire and rehire constraints
Review any planned business restructuring, geographic consolidation, or contract variation programmes to determine whether they fall within restricted variation categories. Evaluate whether financial distress exceptions might apply and what evidence would be required.

 Compliance audits and gap analysis
We conduct detailed audits of current employment practices, identify compliance gaps, and provide prioritized action plans with risk assessment matrices tailored to your business operations and sector.

 Zero hours and shift work advisory
We provide contract review and restructuring advice, HR system requirements specification, reference period calculation methodology design, and seasonal work exemption assessments to ensure compliance with guaranteed hours and shift notice obligations.

 Industrial relations strategy
We provide union access agreement templates and negotiation support, unfair practices compliance training, CAC procedure guidance and representation, and employee communication strategy development.

 Redundancy and restructuring planning
We offer risk mitigation strategies, and cross-jurisdictional coordination for multi-site employers.

 Tribunal capacity and enforcement preparation
We conduct litigation risk assessment and budgeting, and develop early resolution and settlement strategies.

 Pregnancy and family leave enhancement
We update policies for enhanced pregnancy protections, analyse discrimination law interactions, design procedures for permissible dismissal exceptions, and provide training on overlapping legal frameworks.

 Regulatory intelligence services
We provide ongoing regulatory tracking and alert services, impact assessment for new statutory instruments, implementation timeline management, and cross-reference analysis of overlapping requirements.