The Employment Rights Act 2025 provides new protection for workers against detriments that they are subjected to by their employer to penalise, prevent or deter them from taking official industrial action.

The act enables the government to set out the detriments which are to be prohibited in regulations.

This consultation invited views from trade unions, employers, workers, and other interested parties, on what those prohibited detriments should be.

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