Peer-to-Peer meeting will consider Employment Rights Bill
A new Coventry and Warwickshire Peer-to-Peer Network, which was launched in January, saw business leaders from across the region meet to network and explore common challenges and opportunities in a collaborative and supportive forum. The CW Peer-to-Peer Network is a collaboration between the CW Growth Hub Group and founder and director of Growth Plans Ltd, Liz Whitfield, enabling local business leaders and decision-makers to share insights and experiences, and maximise their growth potential. Ahead of the second meeting on Thursday 8th May, Andy Davis, Strategy and Analytics Executive Officer for CW Growth Hub, highlights the theme for the next meeting and why sessions like these are invaluable to business leaders.
Our theme for the second meeting of the CW Peer-to-Peer network is focused on challenges with recruitment for businesses and the impact that the new Employment Rights Bill laid out by the Government will have on these businesses. Following on from our first session we noticed each business highlighted how they were dealing with recruitment challenges, these varied from finding the right people with the right skills and motivation for the role, having the time for focusing on recruitment for their business and retaining talent within the business.
Many SMEs have been facing recruitment difficulties over recent years due to a number of factors and the purpose of our peer-to-peer sessions is for business owners and leaders to share their challenges with each other and support each other on ideas that can help them overcome these challenges. We found many business leaders feel they are in the same boat when it comes to recruitment, and knowing they are not alone is a welcome prospect.
The Employment Rights Bill, which was introduced in parliament on 10 October 2024, sets out to support employers, workers and unions and modernise the employment rights framework to suit the economy of today. The worry for SMEs is that elements of the bill will create additional cost pressures and cause them to disregard their ambitions for growth. At our next session businesses will have the opportunity to air concerns with other business owners and leaders as part of the roundtable discussion and to identify potential solutions.
Executive Leadership coach, Liz Whitfield from Growth Plans Ltd will be providing another engaging session on what challenges business leaders face in the current economy and how they can learn to develop their skills on leadership.
SMEs interested in hearing more about events and opportunities like this one should get in touch with CW Growth Hub at support@cwgrowthhub.co.uk