Employment Rights Act: Make Faster Decisions, Make Better Hires
The Employment Rights Act changes are going to place far greater pressure on businesses to make quicker, better-informed decisions about new hires. The days of allowing someone to drift through the first 12 to 18 months of employment without clear objectives, accountability or meaningful performance conversations are rapidly disappearing.
This session is designed for business owners, senior leaders and HR teams who want to understand what good recruitment, onboarding and early-stage performance management should actually look like in practice.
We’ll explore how businesses can create structured onboarding processes, set meaningful objectives from day one and equip managers to identify concerns early, while also ensuring new starters genuinely understand the organisation’s expectations, culture and direction.
The session will provide practical tools, frameworks and guidance to help businesses make confident employment decisions earlier, reduce risk and build more engaged, accountable teams aligned to the wider mission of the organisation.
Please note that this event is reserved for members only.
If you are interested in becoming a member, please contact [email protected] for more information
About the Speakers:
Alastair is the Founder of EZHR, a HR subscription solution for SMEs that wants to lower barrier of entry to really good advice.
Prior to that he spent 15 years’ working in house for various Blue Chip FMCG and manufacturing businesses along with a number of global BPO organisations. His work was across various areas of specialism including employee relations, organisational change, development, TUPE, and business sale.
Additionally, he hosts The Alternative Business Review. A podcast for early-stage founders that offers an alternative take on what it’s really like founding and growing a business.
Tom Henderson-Griffiths is a Manchester based HR professional, and if it matters a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. With almost 20 years of experience from sectors including; Banking, Leisure, Retail, FMCG, Energy, Waste and IT he eventually found is home working in Consultancy. For the last 2 and a half years, Tom has worked closely with another Pro Manchester Member Alastair Swindlehurst with his Company EZHR. EZHR provides HR services to Companies of all shapes and sizes ranging from those too small to have their own HR team, to those with big HR teams that need extra skills or pairs of hands. Tom’s often been described as firm but fair, passionate, and determined. Outside of his consulting activities Tom proudly works as a successful Drag artist on the UK Cabaret and Comedy Circuits, his performing name is Aunty Ginger and he welcomes all to look him up…though he’s suggested you do this on a personal device rather than a work Computer (fairly warning for adult humour)! Tom is looking forward to working with Pro Manchester and is happy to share his experiences, / battle scars of being LGBTQ, Neurodivergent and an Artist at the same time as a Serious HR professional.
Interested In The Event?
If you’re interested in attending, you can book online here.
For any further enquires about this event, contact [email protected]
