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  • Date:
    14 May 2026
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Employment Rights Act 2025 harassment changes - a fresh perspective from the high seas

    Some major changes are coming to the harassment laws in October. Global inequalities specialist - and licensed skipper - Georgie Williams joins the podcast to talk about what it's like to draw up an anti-harassment policy on a ship. What does it mean when you can't "clock off" and go home in the way you can with land-based office jobs? How does this change dynamics? What challenges does this raise?

  • Date:
    6 May 2026
    Type:
    News

    Fewer CEOs believe AI will reduce hiring

    The number of CEOs who believe AI will lead to reduced hiring has more than halved, according to a global survey, which also found leaders increasingly resilient to geopolitical tensions.

  • Date:
    4 May 2026
    Type:
    News

    Employers' bodies call for more dialogue on union access rights

    UK employer bodies have written to the government calling for tripartite discussions with ministers and unions on the implementation of trade union access rights in the Employment Rights Act 2025.

  • Date:
    1 May 2026
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    The ERA era - the changes implemented so far

    The Employment Rights Bill, described as "the greatest shift in employment legislation in decades", received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025 and passed into law as the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA). That doesn't mean all the workplace law reforms it contains came into force immediately, however. Here we set out the changes that have been enacted so far - and what HR should do about them.

  • Date:
    29 April 2026
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Employment Rights Act special - how organisation design can help businesses in a period of profound change

    Organisation design expert and From-To founder Lilian Duckart joins Brightmine HR strategy and practice editor Laura Kimpton to discuss how HR departments can use organisation design to meet the changing needs of their business - and how AI can help.

  • Date:
    29 April 2026
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment Rights Act 2025 - how do you prepare for the unknown?

    There is a lot we know about the zero hours contract measures contained in the Employment Rights Act 2025 - and quite a lot we still don't know about how they will work in practice when they are finally implemented next year. Rochelle Murinas offers guidance on how organisations can begin to prepare in the face of uncertainty.

  • 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.

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