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  • Date:
    10 February 2025
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Labour turnover in 2024

    Research from Brightmine looks at voluntary resignation and overall labour turnover rates at UK organisations, as well as exploring how workplaces are managing resignation levels.

  • Date:
    6 January 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment law 2025: Six key tasks for HR

    In 2025, HR professionals face the unique challenge of dealing with business-as-usual employment law changes, such as increases in statutory maternity, paternity and sick pay, while also beginning their preparations in earnest for the looming Employment Rights Bill. We look at what HR needs to do to meet its employment law obligations and prepare for the coming year

  • Date:
    6 December 2024
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment Rights Bill: 10 key policies employers must revamp

    The Employment Rights Bill packs 28 imposing employment law reforms into its 158 pages. While HR professionals await the substantive details needed to flesh out the Bill, we outline the key policies that you will need to update and an overview of what those updates might involve.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Unfairly dismissed for swearing due to toxic workplace with widespread "banter"

    In Ogden v Booker Ltd, an employment tribunal held that the employee's dismissal for gross misconduct was unfair due to procedural flaws and a toxic workplace culture that lacked managerial enforcement of dignity at work standards.

  • Date:
    21 November 2024
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

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

    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.

  • Date:
    20 November 2024
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Employment Rights Bill Q&A

    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.

  • Type:
    Employment law guide

    Redundancy: definition of redundancy

    This resource is kept under review and updated in line with developments.

  • Type:
    Leading practice guides

    Supporting redundancy survivors: Survivor syndrome

    Enhanced with data from Brightmine redundancy research on how the impact of redundancies is assessed.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Court of Appeal rules on consultation process for individual redundancies

    In De Bank Haycocks v ADP RPO UK, the Court of Appeal restored the tribunal's decision that the redundancy dismissal was fair and held that "general workforce consultation" is not necessary where the collective consultation requirements do not apply.

  • Date:
    24 October 2024
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

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

    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.