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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 20/04/2026

Brexit has likely done more economic damage than feared. Recent evidence suggests the economic cost of Brexit may be approaching twice the 4% impact assumed by the OBR. The Chancellor has signalled a shift in approach to EU trade, but the effect will depend on how far the govt goes on alignement.

Chart showing estimated fall in GDP per person resulting from Brexit (based on different specifications in a synthetic control model): UK, Q1-2026 to Q2-2025

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Birketts LLP @birketts.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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Liz Stevens @pslbirketts.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

And confirmation that it will a right to be offered not a right to request guaranteed hours.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This headline overstates the legal significance of this Employment Tribunal decision. It was unfair and not in accordance with her contract to sack this worker on the spot for having said it. They should have gone through a disciplinary process. Think twice before having a word with your boss.

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Darren Newman @daznewman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Employment Rights Bill has been passed by the House of Lords. It now goes back to the Commons to consider the amendments that have been made.

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Liz Stevens @pslbirketts.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The press release is out, but no sign (yet) of the consultation responses or the updated Bill. Bracing for impact.... www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Employment Rights Bill to boost productivity for British workers and grow the economy

The Government will today table amendments to the Employment Rights Bill.

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Liz Stevens @pslbirketts.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Detailed and very helpful Research Briefing from the always-excellent Commons Library, setting out progress of the Employment Rights Bill up to the end of the Committee Stage: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

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Employment Rights Bill 2024-25: Progress of the bill

The second reading of the Employment Rights Bill 2024-25 took place on 21 October 2024. This briefing covers the bill's progress from second reading through to the end of its committee stage.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 06/02/2025

Picking up the discussion of lawyer’s estimates of prospects of success. First, a description of some different approaches, then a howl of pain /1

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Darren Newman @daznewman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Who will qualify for the right to be offered guaranteed hours? In the Employment Rights Bill Committee Stage debate on 3 December, the Government suggested that the scope of the new right might be wider than you think. New post from me: rangeofreasonableresponses.com/2024/12/05/g...

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Guaranteed hours – who will qualify?

How many hours do you have to work before you are no longer on a ‘low hours’ contract? The question is crucial to the right to guaranteed hours contained in the Employment Rights Bill currently at …

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Darren Newman @daznewman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Getting more and more frustrated with the 'Right to Guaranteed Hours' under the Employment Rights Bill. You can't say anything sensible about how it will work because all the crucial details - a total of 15 of them! - are left to Regulations. It's not good lawmaking.

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