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Latest event
You are warmly invited to join our monthly Zoom HR Hubs. The details of our next event are as follows:
Topic: Current Hot Topics in Discrimination
Guest speaker: Kate Benefer, Partner at RWK Goodman
Date: Thursday, 27th February 2025
Time: 10am to 11am
Event details
Join us for the next Allen Associates HR Hub, where we’ll be tackling some of the most pressing topics in discrimination law currently affecting workplaces. Kate Benefer from RWK Goodman will lead the session, providing both legal insights and practical guidance for HR professionals and employers.
There will be opportunities for Q&As afterwards.
January's HR Hub: Employment and Recruitment Trends for 2025 by Jack Kennedy
Our latest HR Hub included Employment and Recruitment Trends for 2025, compiled by Indeed's Jack Kennedy for Allen Associates.
December's HR Hub: Employment Law Update by RWK Goodman
Our latest HR Hub included an Employment Law Update compiled by RWK Goodman for Allen Associates and explores 2024's key employment law updates and other legal developments.
HR insights
Our guest speakers are experts in their field and are happy to share their experiences, professional advice, handy hints and checklists with us.
From our Knowledge Centre, you can access:
- Guest speaker blogs and videos.
- Quarterly employment law updates from our HR Hub partners at RWK Goodman.
- Results of our monthly polls.
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Kate Allen
Executive Chair and Marketing Director, Allen Associates
Kate founded Allen Associates in 1998 with the aim of creating the type of recruitment agency that she would like to use herself as a client and a candidate. For more than two decades, Kate’s commitment to providing an outstanding service and added value has never wavered, enabling her to build a robust business and an enviable reputation in her home county of Oxfordshire and further afield.
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Kate Benefer
Partner in the Employment team, RWK Goodman
Kate advises on all aspects of employment law including disciplinary, grievances and sickness management, redundancy and restructures, discrimination, tribunal claims and immigration issues. Kate has been described as “very switched on” (client feedback) and as a “confident and poised speaker” whose delivery is “on the money” (delegate feedback).
TestimonialI have to say (and I am not just saying this) it was one of the best webinars I have attended.
Get involved!
Please contact Kate Allen if you would like to:
- Speak at one of our Zoom HR Hubs
- Suggest a topic for a future presentation
- Write a guest blog
- Receive our HR Hub invitations, guest blogs, employment law updates and poll results
- Be introduced to someone you met at one of our HR Hubs
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