Coming soon

Podcast: Psychological safety at work - why it's critical to build it, what goes wrong when it's missing

Strategist, futurist and data scientist Wilson Wong joins the podcast to discuss psychological safety at work - how to build it, how to measure it and what can go wrong when it's lacking.

Podcast: What's up with WhatsApp in the workplace?

WhatsApp and other informal messaging platforms are an invaluable communication resources for individuals and groups. But as some recent legal cases have shown, they can also create problems when they are used in a work environment. Sam Dickinson, a partner at Mayo Wynne Baxter solicitors, joins the podcasts to talk about the pitfalls - and what employers can do to manage risk.

Webinar: Navigating HR and reward priorities in 2025

Join Sheila Attwood as she looks at what is in store around building your workforce, developing leaders and managers, offering competitive and attractive reward packages, and creating an environment that supports and promotes employee wellbeing.

Register here.

28 January 2025

Commentary and insights: Pay transparency - a practical guide

Whether it's because you need to comply with EU legislation or because you understand the link between transparency and engagement, preparing to be "transparent" involves a lot more than just changing the way you write job adverts to show salaries, says Jane Vivier.

Commentary and insights: Pay transparency - do the right thing
We know the price of things in a shop. We have prices on menus, and we have laws around weights and measures so we know what we're getting for our money, whether we're buying apples or apple brandy. So why is it still acceptable to advertise a job without stating a salary or salary range? Jane Vivier has a theory.

January 2025

International: New chapter of the global guide for employers focusing on reward

This guide looks at what HR and reward professionals in global organisations should think about when creating a new global reward strategy or updating their existing one, to ensure they are well prepared to recruit and retain people in the countries in which they operate.

January 2025

Podcast: The criminally overlooked potential of ex-offenders in the workforce

A significant proportion of the population have criminal records. So what are the legal requirements when thinking about recruiting someone with a spent or unspent conviction? And are employers that shy away from engaging with ex-offenders failing to make use of a valuable resource and even damaging their organisations? Debbie Sadler of Unlock and Brightmine senior legal editor Laura Merrylees join the podcast to discuss these questions.

February 2025

The wide-ranging Employment Rights Bill paves the way for the biggest upheaval in employment law for many decades. Among other things, the Bill:

• removes the two-year service requirement to claim unfair dismissal;
• makes "fire and rehire" dismissals without evidence of financial difficulties automatically unfair;
• changes the collective redundancy consultation threshold to cover the whole organisation, rather than each "establishment" within an organisation;
• introduces a right for trade unions to request access to workplaces and requires employers to notify new hires of the right to join a union;
• expands protection against dismissal for pregnant employees and individuals who are on, or have recently returned from, family-related leave;
• makes statutory paternity leave and ordinary parental leave day-one employment rights;
• makes entitlement and procedural changes to statutory sick pay;
• entitles zero and low hours workers to stable contractual arrangements;
• widens the statutory right to bereavement leave beyond bereaved parents to all employees;
• requires large employers to publish gender pay gap and menopause action plans;
• introduces stronger workplace harassment laws; and
• reforms the right to request flexible working.

• Ongoing commentary and insights from the Brightmine team: Our team of experienced HR and employment law experts is continuing to sift through the fine detail of the published Bill and any supporting documentation or announcements that the Government subsequently releases to bring you the very latest updates and insights.

• Look out for many new and updated resources from Brightmine: The Employment Rights Bill provides the framework for multiple employment law changes - much of the detail is still being worked out. As the Government releases more details about these changes, the Brightmine team will be formulating our plans to bring you the very best resources, including: model HR policies and contract clauses; model letters and forms; line manager training guides; surveys/benchmarking; podcasts and webinars; and much, much more.
• Check out existing resources from Brightmine: In the meantime, key resources include our Legal timetable; Employment Rights Bill research 2024; Webinar: Employment Rights Bill - how HR can get ahead of the changes; and Employment Rights Bill: 10 key policies employers must revamp. We have also updated dozens of Future developments sections within our Employment law guide with information about the Employment Rights Bill.

Between now and 2026 - and beyond.

The Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act will entitle eligible parents to take up to 12 weeks' neonatal care leave if their baby requires neonatal care and neonatal care pay if they meet further eligibility requirements.

• New neonatal care leave policy explaining the rights of employees to neonatal care leave.
• Suite of template letters to help support employers.
• New employment law guides on neonatal care leave and neonatal pay.

To be confirmed.

The Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Act 2024 will allow an employee to take paternity leave as a day-one right where a mother, or a person with whom a child is placed or expected to be placed for adoption, dies.

• New paternity bereavement leave policy explaining the rights of employees to paternity bereavement leave.

• Suite of template letters to help support employers.
• New section in employment law guide on paternity bereavement leave. 

To be confirmed.