Employment Rights Are Changing. Is Your Workplace Ready for the Impact on New Employees?
Explore what changing employment rights mean for employees in the early months of employment, from unfair dismissal and discrimination claims to workplace adjustments. Discover how a neuroinclusive approach to onboarding, probation and early support can help your organisation prepare for change and set employees up to succeed.
Why attend?
Changes under the Employment Rights Act are set to reshape the employment landscape, strengthening employee protections and placing greater importance on fair, effective employment practices. For employers, HR teams and Occupational Health providers, understanding what these changes mean in practice is essential — particularly when it comes to probation, onboarding and supporting neurodivergent employees.
Join neurobox for a practical webinar exploring what the changes to unfair dismissal rights mean in practice, alongside the implications for discrimination claims and workplace adjustments. We’ll examine how inclusive onboarding, fair probation processes and timely support can help organisations identify barriers early, respond to individual needs and create the conditions for employees to work at their best.
We’ll also explore what employers, HR professionals and Occupational Health providers can do now to prepare for the changes, strengthen their approach to neuroinclusion and support better outcomes for both employees and organisations.
When and When?
Tuesday 2 December at 12pm.
Speakers:
- Lily Campbell, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Manager at Age UK
- Sophie Whitbread, Managing Associate, Employment Law Specialist at Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
- Dr Deborah Leveroy, Head of Research and Insight at neurobox
What we'll cover to help you prepare
Explore the key legislative changes and what they mean for your organisation, with practical guidance on how to strengthen probation, onboarding and workplace support for neurodivergent employees:
Understand what's changing
Identify what’s changing around unfair dismissal rights, when changes apply and what they mean for your organisation.
Review your probation processes
Check that probation policies, performance reviews and decision-making processes are clear, fair and consistently applied.
Get workplace adjustments right from the start
Consider how your organisation identifies, discusses and implements appropriate adjustments during recruitment, onboarding and probation.
Equip managers for inclusive conversations
Help managers recognise when employees may need support, ask the right questions and respond appropriately to individual needs.
Strengthen your approach to performance and support
Ensure concerns are addressed early, reasonable adjustments are considered and employees have a fair opportunity to succeed.
Move from reactive to proactive support.
Identify practical actions to improve policies, processes and collaboration between HR, managers and Occupational Health.
Who should attend?
This webinar is designed for HR professionals, people managers and HR decision-makers who want to understand how changing employment rights could affect their organisation, from recruitment and onboarding through to probation, performance management and workplace adjustments.
For employers, it’s an opportunity to review existing processes, equip managers with the knowledge to make informed decisions and consider how timely, appropriate adjustments can support employees from the outset. With a focus on neuro-inclusion, we’ll explore why proactive support and inclusive employment practices matter — helping organisations prepare for change while creating the conditions for employees to thrive.
For Occupational Health providers, this webinar offers valuable insight into the evolving employment landscape and what it could mean for the advice and support you provide. Stay up to date with key developments, strengthen your understanding of the relationship between employment rights and workplace adjustments, and help ensure your employer clients are informed, prepared and equipped to put effective support into practice.
Meet the Speakers
Together, Deborah, Sophie and Lily will explore the legal changes and their practical implications for employers, connecting employment law with the everyday decisions that shape employees’ experiences at work.
Speaker: Sophie Whitbread | Employment Law Specialist
Sophie has considerable experience advising both employers and employees on a broad range of employment law issues. Her work includes day-to-day employment matters such as performance management, redundancies and restructuring, TUPE, restrictive covenants and discrimination, as well as complex Employment Tribunal claims. Discrimination, particularly disability discrimination, features heavily in Sophie's work. She has a particular interest in neurodiversity and neuroinclusion in the workplace, with many of her Tribunal claims involving neurodivergent claimants.
Speaker: Lily Campbell | DE&I Manager, Age UK
Lily Campbell is currently the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Manager at Age UK, responsible for driving inclusion across colleagues, retail, volunteers and internal volunteering groups. Her experience spans the public, private and consultancy sectors, including roles at Boeing, BMW Group, the University of Birmingham and Global Diversity Practice. She specialises in disability inclusion, neurodiversity, intersectionality and addressing microaggressions, using targeted initiatives and impactful training to help create more accessible, equitable and inclusive environments.
Host: Dr Deborah Leveroy | Head of Research & Insight, neurobox
Deborah specialises in workplace neuroinclusion, combining research expertise with practical experience supporting organisations to create more inclusive working environments. She leads neurobox’s research initiatives, helping translate evidence into meaningful workplace change. She holds a PhD from the University of Kent, focusing on dyslexia, performance training and inclusion and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, books and toolkits, including with Routledge and the British Dyslexia Association. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Coventry University.