Recent incidents of racist abuse directed at players during Premier League and Six Nations fixtures along with a huge increase in online abuse highlight why impending changes to harassment laws under the Employment Rights Act 2025 will place significant obligations on clubs, event operators, and other sports organisations. From October 2026, sports organisations will be liable for acts of harassment towards their employees (in the course of their employment) by fans, customer

When the Diocese of Leicester signed a voluntary union recognition agreement with Unite, it marked, what I feel, is a quiet revolution in how religious institutions handle employment relations. Historically, trade unionism and organised religion shared complex, deeply intertwined roots. In the 19th century, many British union pioneers including early trade union presidents and leaders were Methodist ministers who modelled union branch meetings on Methodist fellowship gatherin

Clubs are more vulnerable to unfair dismissal claims after changes to employment law. Premier League and Football League clubs will be more vulnerable to unfair dismissal claims from sacked managers and released players from next year after changes to employment law. Under the Employment Rights Act (ERA), which comes into effect on 1 January, employees will gain protection from unfair dismissal after six months rather than two years of service. In another significant change,