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Latest Event
You are warmly invited to join our next HR Hub. The details are as follows:
- Topic: Employment Law Update
- Speaker: RWK Goodman Employment & Immigration Team
- Date: 25th March 2026
- Location: Holiday Inn Oxford - Pear Tree Roundabout
Timings: 9.00am to midday
Event details
The Employment Rights Act 2025 is now law and is being described as the most significant update to workers’ rights in a generation.
With major reforms being implemented across 2026 and 2027, employers face wide-ranging changes, including trade union reforms, updates to dismissal regulation, new restrictions on contract variations, extensions to collective redundancy rules and penalties, and a reduction in the unfair dismissal qualifying period to six months, alongside the removal of the compensation cap.
The Employment and Immigration team at RWK Goodman will provide a clear and practical update on what these changes mean for businesses, along with insight into other recent legal developments.
The session will include:
- Key changes coming with the Employment Rights Act 2025
- An immigration update
- Recent case law developments
You can expect a focused and practical session designed to help employers understand their obligations, assess risk, and prepare confidently for the changes ahead.
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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.
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).
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