Coming soon
Here we detail selected new and updated resources due to be published.
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New resources
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Survey analysis and Benchmarking - HR metrics: Pay forecasts 2025 Gain insights into the outlook for pay awards in 2025; the factors shaping pay award budgets; and how organisations are addressing employee expectations around pay and reward. Our research also explores the impact of the changes to employer National Insurance Contributions. Take part in the survey here. |
March 2025 |
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Commentary and insights: Managing zero hours workers Alison Frazer looks at the practical implications of the Employment Rights Bill for employers managing workers on zero hours contracts. |
March 2025 |
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Commentary and insights: Did you know - Portugal, Malaysia and South Korea Brightmine international editors Ronelle Barreto and Rocio Carracedo Lopez offer insights into employment law in Portugal, Malaysia and South Korea as Brightmine launches its three new international law guides. |
March 2025 |
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Commentary and insights: DEI in challenging times Georgie Williams looks at what organisations can do to maintain an inclusive bedrock in turbulent political times. |
March 2025 |
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Podcast: Disability-related absence - tribunal round-up Susie Munro, senior legal editor at Brightmine, looks at three cases where employers have lost "discrimination arising from disability" claims after treating workers unfavourably because of disability-related absence. |
March 2025 |
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Podcast: Immigration law changes Ferzana Ahmed and Mith Ragukaran, immigration solicitors at law firm Fragomen, take us through the latest immigration developments and issues affecting HR professionals, including what's on the horizon. |
March 2025 |
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Webinar: Ethnicity data disclosure - fostering trust and building engagement for a better workplace Collecting ethnicity data is integral to advancing DEI initiatives, as well as to the Government's Equality (Race and Disability) Bill, which is expected to be published shortly and which will extend pay gap reporting to ethnicity and disability for large employers. Join Aggie Yemurai Mutuma, CEO of Mahogany Inclusion Partners, to learn practical techniques for encouraging employee ethnicity disclosure in ways that foster trust, protect privacy and align with evolving legal requirements. Register here. |
20 March 2025 |
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Podcast: Statutory neonatal care leave A new right for parents to take up to 12 weeks' neonatal care leave if their baby requires medical or palliative care is introduced on 6 April 2025. Jo Broadbent, a counsel knowledge lawyer in the employment team at law firm Hogan Lovells, explains the new right and sets out what HR professionals need to know about neonatal care leave. |
April 2025 |
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Podcast: Employment Rights Bill - six months on The Government published its wide-ranging Employment Rights Bill in October 2024. Six months on, Stephen Simpson, principal editor at Brightmine, reviews the Bill's progress through Parliament so far. |
April 2025 |
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Survey analysis and Benchmarking - HR metrics: Pay transparency and fair pay 2025 Our latest research examines how UK organisations are approaching pay transparency and fair pay. The survey explores key topics including: pay gap analysis and reporting; the measures used to enhance transparency; and the key drivers behind pay transparency practices. Take part in the survey here. |
April 2025 |
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Survey analysis and Benchmarking - HR metrics: Sickness absence management and rates 2025 The latest research on sickness absence explores absence levels, sick pay and absence management at UK organisations. Take part in the survey here. |
April 2025 |
New resources to reflect new right to neonatal care leave and pay
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The Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act entitles 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. |
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| Status | On 20 January 2025, draft Regulations were published to accompany the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act, fleshing out the remaining details to enable the drafting of a neonatal care leave policy that complies fully with the new right. The draft Regulations confirm that neonatal care leave and pay is available to parents of children who are born on or after 6 April 2025. |
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New forms published on 14 February 2025:
Detailed employment law guides published on 13 March 2025: Other resources to follow in March 2025. |
Updated content
Employment Rights Bill - ongoing reaction from Brightmine
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The wide-ranging Employment Rights Bill paves the way for the biggest upheaval in employment law for many decades. Among other things, the Bill:
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| Status | The Employment Rights Bill was published on 10 October 2024 and is now making its way through Parliament. The Government has said that the majority of the reforms will take effect no earlier than 2026. The Government has also said that the removal of the two-year service requirement to claim unfair dismissal will take effect no sooner than autumn 2026. |
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Between now and 2026 - and beyond. |
Updates to reflect new right to paternity bereavement leave
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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. |
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| Status | The Paternity Leave (Bereavement Act) 2024 was passed under the previous Government. Regulations are still required to bring its provisions into force. These regulations will also set out further details necessary for drafting a paternity bereavement leave policy that complies fully with the new right. It's not yet known when these provisions will come into force, but it is likely to be during 2025 |
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To be confirmed. |
