Podcasts and webinars

All items: End of employment

  • 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 will also be looking at what employers can do now to prepare for the changes promised in the Employment Rights Bill.

  • Podcast: Employment Rights Bill - trade unions and workers' rights

    Date:
    30 July 2025

    Shantha David, head of legal services at UNISON, joins the podcast to talk about the impact of the Employment Rights Bill on trade union rights, fire and rehire practices and more.

  • Podcast: Employment Rights Bill - what's new, what's been dropped?

    Date:
    17 April 2025

    In October 2024 the Government launched a major overhaul of employment law in the form of the Employment Rights Bill. A number of important amendments have been introduced since the proposed legislation was first published. Stephen Simpson, principal editor at Brightmine, joins the podcast to provide an update and help HR departments prepare for the changes.

  • 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.

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

    Date:
    24 October 2024

    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.

  • Podcast: Employment tribunal cases - dismissals following employee mistakes

    Date:
    16 July 2024

    Bags for life, tea containing a surprising substance and more: Susie Munro, senior legal editor at Brightmine, discusses four recent employment tribunal cases where employees were dismissed for misconduct after making what they said were mistakes. 

  • Webinar: General election - counting down the top 10 possible employment law changes

    Date:
    26 June 2024

    Brightmine legal editors Zeba Sayed and Stephen Simpson offer a countdown of the top 10 employment law proposals that are likely to have the biggest impact on employers after the general election.

  • Podcast: Redundancy protection - what's changed?

    Date:
    7 May 2024

    A raft of employment law changes have come into effect over the past few months. In this edition of the podcast, Zeba Sayed and Stephen Simpson discuss some developments that have perhaps received less attention than others: the changes to special redundancy protection for family-related leave that came into force on 6 April 2024.

  • Webinar: Handling HR nightmares

    Date:
    2 November 2023

    We look at workplace scenarios that can strike fear into the heart of the most experienced HR professionals, including issues relating to: discipline and grievances; redundancy; and new legislation.

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Podcasts and webinars: HR and legal information and guidance relating to the end of employment.