Employee Rights Bill: Key Impacts on Employee Relations and Workforce Strategy
Join Marsh McLennan for an insightful webinar where they will be discussing the critical updates introduced by the Employee Rights Bill and what they mean for employee relations and collective bargaining.
Topics covered will include:
- Key changes in the Employee Rights Bill
- Impact on Employee relations
- Collective Bargaining and Trade Union Strategy
- Employer Readiness – What You Should Do Now
This session will provide practical guidance and strategic insights to help foster positive employee relations in a rapidly changing regulatory environment.
Speakers
Leigh Stanger - Retail, Food, Beverage, and Leisure Industry Leader, Mercer
Leigh is a Client Director and Retail, Food, Beverage and Leisure Industry leader for Mercer. Being a previous consultant he is able to combine technical knowledge with strategic and macro insights to support clients navigate the challenges seen across the market.
Madeleine Kelly - Co-founder, Integrity Conflict Solutions
Madeleine is a lawyer with 30 years’ experience of advising businesses on the risks and management of conflict. Now as a co-founder of Integrity Conflict Solutions, she combines her experience as a lawyer, and as a mediator, to help clients navigate difficult conversations, build and maintain excellent relationships with their stakeholders, and mediate through challenging disputes.
Lisa Trewhitt - Principal Reward Consultant, Mercer
Lisa is Principal Consultant in Mercer’s Reward & Talent team in London. She has worked in Reward for over 20 years in both consulting and in-house roles across general and executive reward. Lisa comes from a research background and has a PhD in Industrial Relations which focused on employee involvement in power sharing organisations. She has direct and varied experience of working with clients in unionised environments and was also a trade union representative for the NUJ for five years.
Richard Thomas - Partner, Capital Law
Richard has over 25 years’ experience (both In House and Private Practice) advising on contentious and non-contentious Employment and Data Protection Law. Richard provides strategic advice on collective employee consultation duties and obligations arising out of company restructures, acquisitions, mergers, collective redundancies and outsourcing. This work includes informing, consulting and negotiating with Trade Unions to avoid legal claims and industrial action, as well as the application of TUPE.
Tanya Barringer - Industry Growth Policy Manager, FDF
Tanya Barringer is the Industry Growth Policy Manager at the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), where she leads on employment policy - including the Employment Rights Bill, immigration and skills. Her work also spans innovation, automation and AI adoption, and promoting supply chain fairness across the UK’s food and drink manufacturing sector.