The Brightmine Podcast (UK)

Mar 31 2025 240 ep. 19 mins 22
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XpertHR is now Brightmine. This podcast brings you must-have employment law guidance, HR best practice and insights, from the team behind the UK's leading online HR resource.

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Neonatal care leave - a practical guide

Mar 31 2025 29 mins  
Jo Broadbent, counsel knowledge lawyer at Hogan Lovells, joins us to discuss the new right to neonatal care leave and look at likely forthcoming changes to family-friendly employment rights in the Employment Rights Bill. Read the transcript Related resources Webinar: Statutory neonatal care leave - how employers can prepare Neonatal care leave Neonatal care pay Neonatal care l

Tribunal round-up - disability-related absence

Mar 19 2025 20 mins  
Susie Munro, senior legal editor at Brightmine, looks at three cases where employers have lost "discrimination arising from disability" claims after treating workers unfavourably because of disability-related absence. Related resources Disability-related absence: Tribunal round-up On your radar Disability discrimination - line manager training

Pay transparency – prepare for change

Feb 27 2025 25 mins  
Justine Woolf, director of consulting at Innecto Reward Consulting, joins the podcast to tell us about pay transparency legislation in the US and EU and why employers in the UK need to be prepared for change - and how their organisations can benefit by taking a proactive approach. To access the white paper discussed by Justine, click here. Read the transcript What to read, listen

What's up with WhatsApp in the workplace?

Feb 13 2025 21 mins  
WhatsApp and other informal instant messaging platforms are an invaluable communication resource for individuals and groups. But as some recent legal cases have shown, they can also create problems when they are used in a work environment. Sam Dickinson, an employment lawyer and partner at Mayo Wynne Baxter solicitors, joins the podcasts to talk about the pitfalls - and what employ

The criminally overlooked potential of ex-offenders in the workforce

Feb 04 2025 31 mins  
A significant proportion of the population have criminal records. So what are the legal requirements when thinking about recruiting someone with a spent or unspent conviction? And are employers that shy away from engaging with ex-offenders failing to make use of a valuable resource and even damaging their organisations? Debbie Sadler of Unlock and Brightmine senior legal editor Lau

Psychological safety in the workplace

Jan 15 2025 30 mins  
Psychological safety is one of the cornerstones of a productive, progressive workplace. Strategist, futurist and data scientist Wilson Wong joins the podcast to discuss how to build it, how to measure it and what can go wrong when it’s lacking in an organisation. Read the transcript Related resources How to create psychological safety at work Developing employee performance: P

Supporting neurodiversity in the workplace

Dec 11 2024 22 mins  
Laura Kimpton, HR strategy and practice editor at Brightmine, discusses how organisations, and line managers in particular, can support and champion neurodiversity in the workplace. Topics include: employers' legal duties under the Equality Act; the value of adopting a "needs-led" approach; making reasonable adjustments; approaches to onboarding and communication. Read the trans

What changes should HR prepare for from the Employment Rights Bill?

Nov 20 2024 41 mins  
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. Read the transcript The accompanying slides can be downloaded here Related resources P

Employment Rights Bill Q&A

Nov 20 2024 32 mins  
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. Read th

HR in 2035 - how will AI transform the people profession in the coming decade?

Nov 12 2024 19 mins  
What will the people profession look like in 2035? How will AI transform HR practices over the next decade? And how can HR teams prepare for the ethical challenges posed by emerging technologies like AI? Tessa Hilson-Greener joins the podcast to answer these questions and many more besides. Related resources AI fundamentals: How to identify AI needs in HR Three areas of focus for