The Government has published its “roadmap” (a timetable) for introducing its proposed radical programme of changes to employment law. Despite deliberately introducing its Employment Bill within the first 100 days of power, the new timetable has considerably less urgency and much of the legislative programme we have been discussing over the past year has been delayed. In particular, the much-heralded right to claim unfair dismissal from the first day of employment (rather than after two years) has been delayed to an unspecified date in 2027.

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I have lost count of how many times, over the past decade, I have deleted the word “gender” in a client’s equality policy and replaced it with the word “sex”, not through any ideological conviction but simply because it reflects the wording in the Equality Act 2010.

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