Navigating Employment Costs and Compliance in 2025
With further economic challenges on the horizon for retailers, including National Minimum Wage increases and a reduction in business rates relief, both taking effect in April 2025, many employers are reassessing their business models to identify potential cost-saving measures. In many cases, these measures will include workforce-related adjustments.
Whether you’re needing to make redundancies, change employees’ T&Cs, or keep sickness absence under control to reduce costs, join us to learn how to tackle these issues while ensuring compliance with employment law.
12 February, 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm
What's on the agenda?
UK retailers are facing a tough financial climate, with rising expenses and economic pressures making it harder to maintain profitability. Exclusively for ACT and Bira members, this session is designed to help you manage employment costs and ensure compliance.
You’ll learn how to adapt to upcoming changes, protect your bottom line, and stay on top of your legal obligations. Plus, get acquainted with WorkNest and the ways we can support you.
Hosted by WorkNest Employment Law Adviser Alice Brackenridge and ACT Director Jonathan Harrison, this free, 60-minute webinar will cover a variety of key topics, including:
- Membership perks: Discover what advice and resources are available to you through WorkNest, how to access this service, and the kinds of issues we can assist with.
- Redundancy: Learn when redundancies are necessary and best practices for managing them, ensuring these procedures are handled fairly and legally.
- Changing terms and conditions: Get guidance on modifying employment contracts, ensuring transparency and compliance with legal requirements.
- Sickness absence: Gain effective strategies for managing and reducing sickness absence, including how to identify and address bogus cases to deter malingering.
Have a question?
There will also be an opportunity to ask questions relevant to your business. Simply submit your question via the form above and our hosts will answer as many as possible at the end of the session.
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“Having attended a few WorkNest webinars, I am always impressed with the no-nonsense, well-balanced guidance they provide. Their advice gives me confidence to deal with situations that may arise in an appropriate way and the fact that they follow up with answers to all the questions posed during the webinar is an added bonus.”
Mary Greig, Scaled Solutions
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Protecting organisations and achieving results
Owing to our unrivalled support and expertise, we’re consistently high achievers when it comes to protecting organisations and achieving results.
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Across our non-SRA and SRA entities, we have over three times as many qualified employment lawyers than any of our larger competitors, guaranteeing the best possible advice.
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Reduced claims risk
Our Employment Law clients are nearly four times less likely to face a Tribunal claim compared to the national average, and almost twice as likely to successfully defend one.
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All of our Health & Safety specialists are IOSH qualified (or equivalent), mainly Chartered or Graduate, ensuring they possess the skills and expertise to support you effectively.
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Years of experience
Together, our experts have over 1,500 years’ collective experience of supporting organisations with their compliance, so you can be sure you’re in safe hands.
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Proud to support over 40,000 UK employers
Our clients range from small businesses with fewer than 50 staff at a single location, through to large household names employing thousands of people at multiple sites across the UK. Whatever your size or sector, we have solutions to suit your needs.
