Strategic HR

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• Date:

  17 April 2026

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Employment Rights Act: Is the phased approach helping or hindering HR?

  The Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA) is reshaping UK employment law, but it is not happening overnight - the first major cluster of changes have now taken effect, with further implementation phases announced - and that presents an opportunity, says Caroline Green.

• Date:

  14 April 2026

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: The AI challenge - adjust your performance expectations and measurements now!

  Research suggests that AI is making a nonsense of the traditional equivalence between output and productivity and creating a new category of worker: the person who is thriving themselves into exhaustion. Jeremy Hollander joins the podcast to discuss how HR can tackle these issues by upgrading productivity measurements to distinguish sustainable high performance from intensity that is destined to end in burnout.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Advancing gender equality in the workplace: Why is gender equality important?

  Updated to reference the European Commission's definition of gender equality in its Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030. 

• Date:

  9 April 2026

  Type:

  Case studies

  UNICEF UK's approach to progressive pay gap reporting

  Martyn Dicker, Director of People, and Michelle Agyakwa, Head of Talent, talk to Shelagh Prosser about how UNICEF UK has gone beyond statutory compliance to design and deliver a holistic and sustainable approach to measuring and acting on pay gap differentials across a range of characteristics.

• Type:

  How to

  How to lead HR planning for the Employment Rights Act 2025

  Various changes under the Employment Rights Act 2025 took effect on 6 April 2026. HR should begin planning for further reforms due to be introduced later in 2026.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting whistleblowers: What is whistleblowing?

  Updated to reflect that whistleblowing protections now also cover disclosures about sexual harassment.

• Date:

  2 April 2026

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Over-mentored but under-sponsored: A hidden barrier to women's progression

  Mentorship and sponsorship are often treated as interchangeable, but they play very different roles in career progression - particularly for women. Vernujaa Nagandiram explains why a system of formal, evenly distributed sponsorship is key to achieving more equitable professional outcomes.

• Date:

  19 March 2026

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  HR for HR: Doing ever more with ever less - how HR can thrive

  Workforce pressures, shrinking budgets, an uncertain future and rising redundancies all point to one reality: the need for HR to do more with less. Caroline Green talked to a group of HR professionals to examine the lows, and surprising highs, that accompany tackling that challenge, and offers practical ways organisations can cope.

• Date:

  18 March 2026

  Type:

  News

  AI mistrust costing businesses £29bn

  Mistrust in AI could be costing businesses £29bn in lost productivity, according to technology company UnlikelyAI.

• Type:

  Editor's choice

  On-demand webinars

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