2024 General election: top 10 possible employment law changes
Aired: 25 June 2024
Duration: 45 mins
Now that Labour have won the general election, what will happen to the employment law plans already announced by the previous Government?
In this webinar:
In this 45-minute webinar Brightmine legal editors Zeba Sayed and Stephen Simpson will offer a countdown of the top 10 employment law proposals that are likely to have the biggest impact on employers.
Among the Labour proposals that we will discuss are:
- Introduction of ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting
- Right to disconnect, sometimes referred to as “right to switch off”
- Reduction of the three-tier system of employment status to two-tier system of “worker” and self-employed
Stephen and Zeba will also examine what is likely to happen to the current Government’s employment law plans that have already reached an advanced stage but have not yet been implemented. These include the proposed statutory “fire and rehire” code of practice, new duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment, and new right to neonatal leave and pay.
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More about our contributors
Robert Shore
HR Markets Insights Editor, Brightmine
Robert has over 20 years’ experience of publishing and journalism. At Brightmine he creates and commissions content for webinars and podcasts and for the Commentary and insights tool.
He has a Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Law. He was formerly an International employment law editor at Brightmine, and prior to that worked as an arts journalist.
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Zeba Sayed
Senior Legal Editor, Brightmine
Zeba is a former practicing employment solicitor with more than 17 years’ experience in employment law.
Zeba joined Brightmine in 2017 and is a senior legal editor in the employment law and compliance team. In this role, she is responsible for content across Policies and procedures, Letters and forms and Contract clauses. She is also responsible for ensuring that allocated chapters of the employment law guide are kept updated. She has a special interest in the implications of AI in the employment field.
Zeba holds a degree in Law and completed her LPC at the College of Law in Chester. Prior to joining Brightmine, Zeba was an associate solicitor at Lyons Davidson Solicitors in the London office. She advised both individuals and employers on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters and delivered training to clients nationally. Zeba has also worked in conjunction with Acas London to deliver training on their behalf. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
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Stephen Simpson
Principal editor – Employment Law and Compliance, Brightmine
Stephen is a principal editor who has worked on the Brightmine employment law and leading practice resources for over 20 years. After growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, he trained as a solicitor in England in the 1990s but soon moved into legal publishing. He was among the first recruits to Brightmine in the year before it was launched as XpertHR in 2002.
Stephen has worked on a wide range of employment law and leading practice resources, including overseeing the creation and expansion of the HR templates resource types (Policies and procedures, Letters and forms, and Contract clauses). He has written up over 1,000 reports on employment law cases and created practical guidance on a range of HR issues for the Commentary & insights tool. He also had a stint working on Personnel Today.
Connect with Stephen on LinkedIn.