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The Brightmine Podcast (UK)

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Employment Rights Bill
Employment Rights Act 2025
Gender Pay Gap
Trade Unions
Menopause
Well-Being Strategies
Probationary Periods
EU Pay Transparency Directive
Flexible Working
UK Immigration
Industrial Action
Parental Leave
Men's Health
Neurodiversity
Employee Support
Career Development
Unfair Dismissal
Brightmine
Employment Law
Global Hiring

XpertHR is now Brightmine. This podcast brings you must-have employment law guidance, HR best practice and insights, from the team behind the UK's leading online HR resource.

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Latest Episodes

Brightmine legal editor Lilia Dangi joins the podcast to talk through recent and upcoming trade union-related reforms under the Employment Rights Act 2025. She discusses how these changes are modernising industrial relations and rebalancing the relat... more

Some major changes are coming to the harassment laws in October. Global inequalities specialist – and licensed skipper – Georgie Williams joins the podcast to talk about what it's like to draw up an anti-harassment policy on a ship. What does it mean... more

Organisation design expert and From-To founder Lilian Duckart joins Brightmine HR strategy and practice editor Laura Kimpton to discuss how HR departments can use organisation design to meet the changing needs of their business - and how AI can help.... more

Research suggests that AI is making a nonsense of the traditional equivalence between output and productivity and creating a new category of worker: the person who is thriving themselves into exhaustion.

Jeremy Hollander joins the podcast to discus... more

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Recent Guests

Lilia Dangi
Legal editor at Brightmine
Brightmine
Episode: Employment Rights Act 2025 – the trade union reforms reshaping industrial relations
Georgie Williams
Licensed skipper; researcher; DEI advocate
Slash Queer / Brightmine contributor
Episode: Employment Rights Act 2025 harassment changes - a fresh perspective from the high seas
Lilian Duckart
Founder of FromTo; organization design practitioner
FromTo; European Organization Design Forum
Episode: Employment Rights Act special – how organisation design can help businesses in a period of profound change
Laura Kimpton
HR strategy and practice editor at Brightmine
Brightmine
Episode: Employment Rights Act special – how organisation design can help businesses in a period of profound change
Jeremy Hollander
Expert in enterprise technology and HR/AI, guest on the episode
Confidential based on introduction
Episode: The AI challenge - adjust your performance expectations and measurements now!
Michelle Gyimah
Pay gap strategist and founder of Equality Pays
Equality Pays
Episode: Gender pay gap reporting – lessons learned and what comes next
Sheila Attwood
Senior Content Manager at Brightmine and reward specialist
Brightmine
Episode: Pay reviews in 2026 – balancing budgetary pressures and employee expectations
Caroline Green
CEO and founder of The Talent Cycle, focuses on supporting women in the workplace
The Talent Cycle
Episode: Employment Rights Act 2025 – will women in the workplace benefit?
Becs Peedell
In-house employment lawyer at law firm Lewis Silkin
Lewis Silkin
Episode: Rethinking how your organisation supports new parents

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Robert Shaw
Host of Brightmine podcast (UK), associated with Brightmine (formerly XpertHR)

Reviews

4.7 out of 5 stars from 38 ratings
  • Professional, succinct and relevant

    I have recently discovered this podcast having signed up to xpertHR subscription at work. I like podcasts and have found the quality of xpertHR to be excellent. On trend, great speakers and succinct. Highly recommend.

    Apple Podcasts
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    sebollie
    United Kingdom4 years ago

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High-quality speakers and data-driven insights consistently come through.
Content is on-trend, succinct, and practical for HR teams.
The show integrates policy updates with actionable workplace guidance.

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Employment Rights Act 2025 – the trade union reforms reshaping industrial relations
Q: What is the purpose and impact of the Fair Work Agency?
The Fair Work Agency consolidates enforcement powers into a single body, enabling proactive investigations, inspections, and the ability to bring tribunal claims on behalf of workers, increasing enforcement visibility and compliance requirements.
Employment Rights Act 2025 – the trade union reforms reshaping industrial relations
Q: What does union access rights practically mean for employers?
Unions can request access to workplaces (in person or digitally); if not agreed, the CAC will decide. Access includes on-site meetings and digital communications, with safeguards to prevent undue interference or disclosure of confidential discussions.
Employment Rights Act 2025 – the trade union reforms reshaping industrial relations
Q: What is the government trying to achieve with these reforms?
The reforms aim to reset and modernise the UK's industrial relations, reduce unnecessary restrictions on unions, and give workers a stronger collective voice, leading to more collaboration and easier union organisation and representation.
The AI challenge - adjust your performance expectations and measurements now!
Q: Are employers truly integrating AI or waiting to see how others implement it first?
There has been a shift in the last six to nine months toward integrating AI tools; if we don't, we risk falling behind competitors, and many enterprises are now expecting use of AI as a baseline.
The AI challenge - adjust your performance expectations and measurements now!
Q: Did this Harvard Business Review finding surprise you, or confirm what you were already seeing?
It was surprising because AI seems to promise reduced work, but it tends to intensify effort as people take on more and faster tasks, expanding their workload rather than shrinking it.

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What is The Brightmine Podcast about and what kind of topics does it cover?

This show centers on employment law, HR best practices, and organizational policy, with a strong emphasis on UK-wide reforms, reporting requirements, parental leave, wellbeing, and compensation. Episodes frequently blend data-driven insights with practical guidance for people teams, highlighting how legislation, workplace culture, and leadership accountability interact to shape real-world outcomes. Noteworthy is its use of shareable data (e.g., pay gap reporting and pay awards) to inform strategy, plus a consistent focus on turning compliance into sustainable, systems-level improvements rather than box-ticking. The format tends to feature seasoned HR and employment-law experts, often pairing practitioners with academics or practitioners fro... more

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4. Laura Kimpton
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7. Sheila Attwood
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