About this Event
The Employment Rights Act 2025 introduces the most significant changes to UK trade union law and industrial relations in a generation.
This employment law update for HR professionals will provide a round up of the overall reforms, with particular focus on the new trade union right of access, the duty to inform workers of their right to join a union, reforms to statutory recognition, changes to the industrial action framework and the enhanced protections for employees participating in industrial action.
Ailsa Hobson and Corina Dias from Sintons LLP will provide an overview of what is changing, when the changes take effect, and what it means for employers and HR teams and how organisations can prepare or respond in order to help manage legal risk and maintain positive and effective employee relations in an evolving industrial relations landscape.
Speakers bio:
Ailsa Hobson is a Senior Associate at Sintons LLP, a full service law firm based in Newcastle which provides first class legal advice across a wide range of legal services to businesses, organisations and individuals in North East England, from offices in Yorkshire and London to the surrounding areas, throughout the UK and further afield.
Ailsa is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and has over 10 years’ experience of advising corporate clients of all sizes and complexity. She advises on complex aspects of employment legislation and best practice, such as the implications of TUPE, data protection, IR35, matters arising from corporate due diligence and strategic re-structures. In addition, Ailsa runs a large litigation caseload, including pre-claim complaints and settlement negotiations and employment tribunals, with particular expertise in discrimination and complex TUPE litigation involving public sector organisations
Corina is a solicitor in the Employment Team at Sintons LLP. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and a Chartered Member of the CIPD and has over 20 years’ experience as a HR practitioner, primarily within the public sector, most recently in a North-East local authority, with primary HR partnership responsibility for social services, education and corporate services.
Corina’s experience includes providing HR and employment law advice to internal and external clients on a wide range of complex HR issues including managing absence, disciplinary, grievance and capability processes, conflict resolution, recruitment, redundancy, restructuring and TUPE, contract and policy drafting, settlement agreements, employment tribunal litigation.
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Darlington College, Haughton Road, Darlington, United Kingdom
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