Employment Rights Act: Resource hub for HR and benefits leaders

What does the Employment Rights Act mean for employee health and benefits?

For HR and benefits leaders, the Employment Rights Act raises the floor on what adequate employee health support looks like. Employers can no longer rely on a generic policy or an underused employee assistance programme to show they support staff through menopause, fertility, pregnancy, men's health, women's health and neurodiversity. The Act expects proactive, evidence based support and the ability to show engagement and outcomes data if challenged.

The cost of getting this wrong is measurable. Period pain alone causes absence for 23% of women over a six month period, one in four women consider leaving work due to menopause symptoms, and 17% of women leave employment within five years of childbirth. Specialist, clinician led support closes this gap in a way a standard EAP cannot, and gives employers the audit trail the Act increasingly expects.