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Latest event
You are warmly invited to join our next online HR Hub.
The details are as follows:
Topic: Employment Law Update - What HR Professionals Need to Know
Speaker: Kate Benefer, Employment Partner at RWK Goodman
Date: Thursday 26th June, 10am to 11am
Location: Zoom (free to attend)
Event details
- An update on the Employment Rights Bill
- Key takeaways from the Immigration White Paper
- Changes to statutory leave entitlements, including neonatal care leave
- Supreme Court decision on sex under the Equality Act
- Recent case law on restrictive covenants and discrimination
May's HR Hub: Mega-Trends, Micro-Lens: What Does the Next Gen Want from Work – and What Does This Mean for HR Professionals?
At our May 2025 HR Hub, hosted in partnership with RWK Goodman, we were joined by global workforce consultant and Future of Work activist Tom Hadley.
April's HR Hub: What Agentic AI Means for HR and Recruitment by Surendra Phatak
Our latest HR Hub included real-time insights into how Agentic AI is affecting businesses in 2025, from Surendra Phatak, GenAI Lead within PwC's Workforce Transformation offering in the UK. Surendra explored Agentic AI - what it is, why it matters and how HR and recruitment professionals can prepare.
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.
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.
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
