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- Type:
- Economic data
Updated to include data for January 2025 on the availability and recruitment of permanent and temporary staff from the KPMG and REC UK Report on Jobs compiled by S&P Global in association with the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC).
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- Date:
- 4 February 2025
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- Podcasts and webinars
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.
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- Type:
- Editor's choice
Updated to include information on how to register for our webinar on statutory neonatal care leave.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
Updated to reflect the Government's announcement that it will be introducing a process to convert automatically pre-settled status holders to settled status, where eligible.
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- How to
Updated to reflect changes to government guidance, confirming that sponsors must carry out right to work checks on workers who are not directly employed.
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- Type:
- How to
Updated to reflect updated government guidance on right to work checks for workers who are not direct employees.
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- Type:
- How to
Updated to reflect changes to government guidance, confirming that sponsors must carry out right to work checks on contractors and that they must not seek to recoup sponsorship fees from employees.
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- Date:
- 6 December 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
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.
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- Date:
- 22 November 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Major changes to the UK's immigration rules affecting the requirements for sponsoring overseas skilled workers came into force earlier this year. What impact do these changes have on employers, and will hiring overseas workers, including right to work obligations, continue to become more challenging? We answer 15 of the most commonly asked questions.
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- Date:
- 21 November 2024
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
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.