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UK Employment Rights Act 2025

The Cost of UK Redundancy
Just Changed. Permanently.

Rightsize through automation before January 2027 closes your options.

180 days'
Protective award per employee
Doubled from April 2026
£123,543
Unfair dismissal cap
Removed Jan 2027
6 months
New qualifying period
From 2 years, Jan 2027
Large UK employers have a narrow 2026 window to reduce FTE dependency through automation. Fire-and-rehire becomes automatically unfair (except under a strict financial-necessity test) and uncapped compensation claims begin.
  • Reduce back-office FTE load by 25–40% via RPA and Agentic AI
  • 90% faster document processing, deployed inside your own infrastructure
  • ERA-compliant workflows with Fair Work Agency audit trails, built in from day one

Start Your ERA 2025 Automation Assessment

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What We Do

Six services. One mandate: reduce your ERA 2025 exposure before the 2027 cost cliff arrives.

Process Discovery & Assessment

Surface 30–50 automation candidates across finance, HR, and operations in 4–6 weeks. ROI-ranked and governance-ready for your next budget cycle.

RPA Bot Development

Reduce shared-service task turnaround from 6 hours to 30 minutes. RPA bots built, tested, and in production with 90-day hypercare and full handover included.

Intelligent Document Processing

90% faster processing, 99% extraction accuracy across HR letters, invoices, and onboarding docs. On-premise or UK cloud, fully GDPR-compliant from day one.

Agentic AI Workforce Copilots

Expand knowledge-worker output by 30–50% without adding headcount. Finance close, HR helpdesk, and procurement. AI-augmented and audit-trailed.

ERA-Compliant HR Automation

Embed day-one rights tracking, collective consultation records, and holiday pay audit trails into every workflow. Fair Work Agency-ready, built in.

Change Management & Redeployment

Redeploy freed FTEs into higher-value roles before ERA 2025 makes redundancy unaffordable. Skills mapping, playbooks, and consultation planning included.

Why DPA

DPA helps large UK employers reduce ERA 2025 cost exposure through intelligent
automation, before the January 2027 cost cliff arrives.

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Act before the 2027 ERA cost cliff

From January 2027, the unfair dismissal compensation cap is removed and the qualifying period drops to six months. Every month of delay raises the exit cost of every affected employee. The window to act through automation and attrition closes in 2026.


Redeployment over redundancy, every time

We pinpoint which processes run on RPA and Agentic AI, reducing back–office FTE load by 25–40%, without triggering collective consultation obligations or protective award exposure.


ERA 2025–compliant from day one

Every workflow we deploy includes audit trails covering day–one rights, consultation records, and holiday pay tracking, built to Fair Work Agency and UK GDPR standards from the outset, not retrofitted later.


Offshore delivery. Big 4–benchmarked outcomes.

Our offshore AI and automation build capability gives large UK employers workforce transformation at a fraction of what PwC, Deloitte, or EY charge for an equivalent engagement.

Frequently asked questions

Straight answers on how we support UK employment rights compliance—from discovery through documentation and training.

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A 4–6 week engagement that surfaces 30–50 automation candidates across finance, HR, and shared services. ROI-ranked, with a governance plan ready for leadership sign-off without further diagnostic spend.

ERA 2025 raises the cost of every redundancy from January 2027. Automating back-office functions now reduces FTE dependency without triggering collective consultation obligations, but only viable if you act in 2026.

All deployments are on-premise or within your own UK cloud environment, fully GDPR-compliant throughout. Every HR workflow includes Fair Work Agency-compliant audit trails from day one.

Engagements begin with a bounded Process Discovery Assessment, scoped for working-level approval. RPA, IDP, and Agentic AI are then priced per output unit, so your finance team sees exactly what it costs and what it delivers.

Let's Transform your ERA 2025 response, together.

DPA helps large UK employers rightsize through automation and attrition, before the ERA 2025 cost cliff closes the 2026 window.