Family Friendly Workplaces and the Employment Rights Act: What’s changing and how employers can prepare

18th March 2026 | 11am to 12pm

Family Friendly Workplaces is hosting a practical, employer-focused webinar on upcoming changes linked to the Employment Rights Act, including developments relating to gender pay gap reporting. The session will bring together policy insight and real-world implementation experience, helping employers understand what’s changing and how to respond in a way that strengthens inclusion, wellbeing and gender equality. 

We’ll hear from:

• Jen Malloy (Cabinet Office), Economic Gender Equality Senior Policy Adviser, Women’s Equality Division, on the policy direction and what it is intended to achieve.
  
• Michelle Gyimah (Founder, Equality Pays) will provide insight on practical steps on how business can prepare for the changes. 
  
• Helen Hodgkinson (Chief People Officer, TLT) will share the practical steps their organisation has taken to prepare and embed changes.
  
• Emma Walsh (Founder and CEO, Parents at Work / Family Friendly Workplaces Australia) will explore how self assessment and certification can support organisations to benchmark their current position and build a clear, staged action plan for improvement.  
  
• The discussion will be moderated by Simon Kelleher, Head of Policy and Influencing at Working Families.

What attendees will take away 

• A clear understanding of the direction of travel on Employment Right s Act-related changes, including gender pay gap reporting 

• Practical insights on implementation from an employer already taking steps 

• A structured way to turn requirements into an actionable plan (benchmarking, priorities, accountability) 

Book now and join a community of trailblazers committed to positive change and building family-friendly workplaces of the future.