Temporary and Contract Workers 2025
2025 workforce trends: Leveraging temporary and contract workers in a shifting labour market
Time: 11:00 - 11:30 | FREE
When: Thursday, 11th September '25
Join us for an overview of recent legislative changes affecting temporary and contract workers, including updates from the Employment Rights Bill 2025, and detailed compliance requirements.
Our expert speaker panel will deliver:
- Analysis of the current state of the temporary and contract worker market in the UK, along with future projections and their impact on hiring practices and workforce management.
- Effective strategies for recruiting and retaining temporary and contract workers, and best practices for onboarding and integrating them into the existing workforce.
- Understanding the rights of temporary and contract workers, ensuring fair treatment, and promoting ethical hiring practices.
- Leveraging digital tools and platforms to manage temporary and contract workers efficiently, and exploring the role of AI in streamlining recruitment processes.
- Interactive discussion providing an opportunity for attendees to ask questions and get expert advice on specific challenges they face.
We are accepting questions before and during the broadcast. Please send your questions to elizabeth.smith@bfi.co.uk.
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Which functions will benefit from attending
- HR, RECRUITMENT AND RESOURCING, TALENT AQUISITION, TEMPORARY & AGENCY RESOURCING, LEGAL, TRAINING, COMPLIANCE AND AUDIT, ADMINISTRATION, STRATEGY, POLICY, OPERATIONS, LINE MANAGERS AND ALL DIRECTORS AND STAFF WITH RESPONSIBILITIES WITHIN THIS AREA
Schedule
Introduction and welcome
Elizabeth Smith
Director of Research , Business Forums International Ltd. (BFI)
Elizabeth is director of research and a founding co-director at Business Forums International. She is responsible for all programme content and writing, and researches current areas of interest for senior HR professionals in large organisations. BFI is the UK’s leading HR risk specialist conference and training provider, delivering key and timely information to over 3,000 delegates a year both through public and in-house training courses. Before founding BFI in 1996, Elizabeth specialised in researching corporate financial programmes in Asia and the Middle East, based in Dubai. She also worked in advertising and publishing in the Middle East and London. Elizabeth was educated in the West Indies, Saudi Arabia and Belgium before reading Modern Languages at Durham University. She is currently developing an online training course for line managers to raise awareness of menopause symptoms and ways that employers can work to make their workplaces more inclusive.