Podcasts and webinars

All items: Family-friendly rights and support

  • Podcast: Rethinking how your organisation supports new parents

    Date:
    3 November 2025

    In this episode of the podcast Zeba Sayed, senior legal editor at Brightmine, talks to Becs Peedell, employment lawyer at Lewis Silkin, about her organisation's equal new parent policy - and how it is seeking to encourage other firms to follow suit.

  • Podcast: Employment Rights Bill - what's new, what's been dropped?

    Date:
    17 April 2025

    In October 2024 the Government launched a major overhaul of employment law in the form of the Employment Rights Bill. A number of important amendments have been introduced since the proposed legislation was first published. Stephen Simpson, principal editor at Brightmine, joins the podcast to provide an update and help HR departments prepare for the changes.

  • Podcast: Neonatal care leave - a practical guide

    Date:
    31 March 2025

    Jo Broadbent, counsel knowledge lawyer at Hogan Lovells, and Brightmine senior legal editor Laura Merrylees discuss the new right to neonatal care leave and look at likely forthcoming changes to family-friendly employment rights in the Employment Rights Bill. 

  • Webinar: Statutory neonatal care leave - how employers can prepare

    Date:
    28 February 2025

    To help HR professionals to prepare for the new right to take additional time off if their child requires neonatal care, this webinar guides you through how this new type of statutory leave will operate in practice and the impact it will have on how employers support the parents of premature or ill babies.

  • Webinar: Employment Rights Bill - how HR can get ahead of the changes

    Date:
    24 October 2024

    In this webinar, Brightmine legal editors Stephen Simpson and Zeba Sayed explain what the changes are going to be, what employers can do now to begin preparing and the potential timelines for implementation.

  • Webinar: General election - counting down the top 10 possible employment law changes

    Date:
    26 June 2024

    Brightmine legal editors Zeba Sayed and Stephen Simpson offer a countdown of the top 10 employment law proposals that are likely to have the biggest impact on employers after the general election.

  • Webinar: Statutory carer's leave - how employers can prepare

    Date:
    23 February 2024

    XpertHR editors Stephen Simpson and Zeba Sayed explain how the new statutory carer's leave will operate in practice and the impact it will have on how employers support carers.

  • Podcast: Key employment law changes to look out for in 2024

    Date:
    19 January 2024

    We discuss the key employment law changes expected to come into force this year and reflect on some important case law decisions from 2023.

  • Webinar: Planning for family-friendly employment law changes in 2024 and beyond

    Date:
    29 September 2023

    In this webinar, Jo Broadbent, from law firm Hogan Lovells, and Stephen Simpson, principal HR strategy and practice editor at XpertHR, will guide you through the upcoming changes, pointing out the challenges and underlining some of the opportunities they give employers to set themselves apart from the competition.

  • Podcast: Supporting employees affected by miscarriage or stillbirth

    Date:
    1 March 2021

    Vicki Robinson, deputy director at the Miscarriage Association, and Jo Broadbent, counsel knowledge lawyer at Hogan Lovells, discuss how to support employees affected by miscarriage or stillbirth.

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