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| 1 January 2021 | New immigration scheme comes into force for all applicants regardless of nationality |
| 1 April 2021 | National Minimum Wage will increase. In addition, the age from which employees are entitled to the national minimum wage is due to reduce from 25 to 23. |
| 30 April 2021 | The Job Retention Scheme has been extended until 30 April 2021. |
| 6 April 2021 | IR35 update: large and medium-sized organisations in the private sector who engage contractors through intermediary companies will be responsible for assessing the employment status of those contractors. |
| 30 June 2021 | EU Settlement Scheme closes to applicants |
| 30 September 2021 | The Job Retention Scheme will close. |
| 5 October 2021 | The EHRC will start enforcing the publication of gender pay gaps for public and private companies in 2021. |
| To be confirmed | New law prohibiting confidentiality clauses in contracts or settlement agreements from preventing disclosures to the police, regulated health and care or legal professionals to be introduced |
| To be confirmed | New law requiring confidentiality clauses to set out their limitations to be introduced |
| To be confirmed | Laws on criminal record disclosures to be amended, reducing the disclosure period for sentences lasting four years or less |
| To be confirmed | Redundancy protection for new parents to be extended |
| To be confirmed | New law introducing right for all workers to request a more predictable and stable contract after 26 weeks’ service to be introduced |
| To be confirmed | New law to increase break in continuous employment from one week to four weeks to be introduced |
| To be confirmed | New law preventing deductions from ‘tips’ to be introduced |
| To be confirmed | New legislation to clarify employment status tests to be introduced |
| To be confirmed | New law introducing tribunal sanctions where organisations commit repeated breaches to be introduced |
| To be confirmed | Extension of shared parental leave to grandparents |
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