Employment Law Changes: Why Workforce Planning Needs to Change in 2026

If your workforce plan hasn’t changed since April, it needs to.

In this video, Kevin Over, Commercial Director at Astute, explains why the Employment Rights Act isn’t just an HR issue for energy employers.

For power generation businesses, changes such as day-one sick pay and day-one parental leave rights could affect absence cover, shift planning, backfilling, and long-term workforce availability.

Kevin covers:

• Why old assumptions around absence and availability no longer hold
• The impact on shift-based and specialist engineering teams
• Why employers need to identify single points of failure
• Why some key roles can take three, six, or even nine months to fill
• How building a talent pipeline early can reduce workforce risk

Read the full workforce planning guide here:
https://www.astutepeople.co.uk/blog/workforce-planning-2026-guide/

To discuss your workforce planning challenges, get in touch with Astute:
https://www.astutepeople.co.uk/get-in-touch/

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