The Brightmine Podcast (UK)

With changes to the law regarding sexual harassment in the workplace coming into effect this autumn · and further changes promised in the Government·s Employment Rights Bill · we are joined by Lisa Bell from Tell Jane to discuss the new legal duty on employers, the impact of technology and generational shifts in attitude. 

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The phrase ·four-day week· has been trending in the media of late · and being used to refer to quite different things, to the confusion of many! In this edition of the podcast we aim to clear up some common misunderstandings.

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Justine Woolf, director of consulting at Innecto Reward Consulting, offers tips for HR to boost employee engagement and ensure that organisations get a better ROI on their benefits.

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Rebuilding in 2024: Strategies for reshaping worker expectations

Andrew Walker, new business development director with Personal Group, joins us to discuss the significant changes and trends shaping the future of work, and to explore strategies to evolve your employee value proposition (EVP) to meet the diverse needs of a multigenerational workforce.

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From wellness and neurodiversity to ·hotelification·, Rachel Basha, founder and CEO of the architecture and design practice Basha-Franklin, discusses the ways in which the shifting needs and character of the 21st-century workforce are reshaping office design.

Deskless and disengaged - how can you stop me from leaving?

Introduction to neurodiversity - line manager training

Health and wellbeing policy

Webinar: Hybrid working - how to personalise the employee experience

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. 

Misconduct dismissals following employee mistakes: Employment tribunal round-up

How does a tribunal gauge whether an employee has been unfairly dismissed on the basis of misconduct?

Misconduct - line manager training

Steve Allan joins us to talk about HR's role in mergers and acquisitions and offers five top tips for getting M&As right. We talk about:

• company culture;
• the impact of AI;
• understanding TUPE; and
• how to get integration right.

Hiring across borders: Five compliance challenges and how to solve them

Podcast: Global hiring - AI, EORs and worker misclassification risks 

Guide for global employers: Recruitment and selection

Miranda Zolot, general counsel at Oyster, talks about the benefits and challenges of distributed working and global hiring. Join her as she discusses subjects including: •    EORs and PEOs; •    compliance issues; •    employee/contractor misclassification risks; and •    AI.

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According to research, almost half of the skills used by the workforce today will no longer be relevant in a couple of years. Given this context of a fast-evolving workplace with shifting needs, it's perhaps unsurprising that organisations are struggling to hire people with the right skills. What is to be done? Career mentor Laurie Macpherson joins us to discuss ways for HR and employees to begin to rethink recruitment and reskilling.

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• Four steps HR can take to help businesses and employees embrace the new "squiggly" careers era
• Whose responsibility is employee development anyway?
• Managing retention: Creating a retention strategy
• Global learning and development 2024: XpertHR survey report

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.

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April 2024 employment law changes: Eight-point checklist for HR

Redundancy policy

Redundancy: Letter offering suitable alternative vacancy to pregnant employee

Redundancy during or after maternity leave: Letter offering suitable alternative vacancy to employee