Podcasts and webinars

All items: Recruitment

  • Webinar: Immigration rules - conducting right to work checks and navigating upcoming changes

    Date:
    19 September 2025

    This webinar provides essential guidance on conducting right to work checks and common pitfalls. It also considers how the proposed expansion of right to work checks to cover workers and self-employed contractors will impact employers.

  • Podcast: Probationary periods - forthcoming legal changes and lessons from recent tribunal cases

    Date:
    17 September 2025

    Susie Munro, senior legal editor at Brightmine, looks at three recent tribunal cases relating to probationary periods, and discusses the upcoming introduction of a day-one right to claim unfair dismissal.

  • Webinar: Getting probationary periods right as Employment Rights Bill changes loom

    Date:
    30 July 2025

    Join employment law specialist Darren Newman as he looks at employers' legal obligations and discusses specific scenarios where probationary periods commonly go wrong. Darren also looks at what employers can do now to prepare for the changes promised in the Employment Rights Bill.

  • Podcast: Immigration law changes 2025 - what HR needs to know

    Date:
    13 May 2025

    Ferzana Ahmed and Mith Ragukaran, solicitors at law firm Fragomen, join Laura Merrylees, senior legal editor at Brightmine, to talk through the latest immigration developments and issues affecting HR professionals, including what's on the horizon.

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

    Date:
    4 February 2025

    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.

  • Podcast: What changes should HR prepare for from the Employment Rights Bill?

    Date:
    21 November 2024

    The Labour Government published its highly anticipated Employment Rights Bill on 10 October 2024. In this edition of the podcast, Brightmine employment law experts Zeba Sayed and Stephen Simpson analyse the key proposals in the Bill and offer advice on how HR can begin to prepare for the changes.

  • Podcast: Employment Rights Bill Q&A

    Date:
    20 November 2024

    The Labour Government published its highly anticipated Employment Rights Bill on 10 October 2024. In this edition of the podcast, Brightmine employment law experts Zeba Sayed and Stephen Simpson answer questions on different aspects of the Bill, from the timeline for the measures coming into effect to the nuances of the proposed unfair dismissal and fire and rehire changes.

  • Podcast: Evolving your EVP to meet the needs of a multigenerational workforce

    Date:
    28 August 2024

    Andrew Walker, new business development director with Personal Group, joins us to discuss the significant changes and trends shaping the future of work, and to explore strategies to evolve your employee value proposition (EVP) to meet the diverse needs of a multigenerational workforce.

  • Podcast: Global hiring - AI, EORs and worker misclassification risks

    Date:
    13 June 2024

    Miranda Zolot, general counsel at Oyster, talks about the benefits and challenges of distributed working and global hiring. Join her as she discusses subjects including EORs and PEOs, compliance issues, employee/contractor misclassification risks, and AI.

  • Podcast: Rethinking recruitment and reskilling

    Date:
    23 May 2024

    According to research, almost half of the skills used by the workforce today will no longer be relevant in a couple of years. Given this context of a fast-evolving workplace with shifting needs, it's perhaps unsurprising that organisations are struggling to hire people with the right skills. What is to be done? Career mentor Laurie Macpherson joins us to discuss ways for HR and employees to begin to rethink recruitment and reskilling.

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