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11:00am - 12:30pm, 21 October 2025
(Europe/London)
(Europe/London)
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Event Details
APSCo Legal Forum
Tuesday 21st of October
11:00am-12:30pm
Webinar
Key Takeaways
- Understand the regulatory shift
- Clear insight into upcoming legislative changes and how they impact contractor engagement models
- Know your options and risks
- Practical guidance on navigating PSC vs umbrella decisions, with expert and peer-led perspectives.
Meeting Agenda
As the landscape of contractor legislation is evolving, businesses in the professional staffing and recruitment sector are preparing for a fresh wave of regulatory change. This session will examine these changes and explore how they are already influencing compliance behaviours, market dynamics, and contractor engagement models and what step you will need to take as a recruitment business to meet new legislative requirements.
As part of this session we will discuss whether we are seeing a shift away from umbrella company models back towards PSCs (inside or outside IR35), and what this could mean for our members. What are the options available in light of these changes? How do they stack up in terms of risk, reward, and commercial viability? And how should firms adapt their strategies to remain compliant while maintaining competitive advantage?
After the presentations there will be an open opportunity to ask Shazia and Dawn any specific questions you may have – these will not be recorded.
Speakers
Shazia Imtiaz
APSCo, General Counsel
Shazia is General Counsel and manages the Legal and Compliance team, joining APSCo in 2021. Shazia is a UK qualified lawyer with over 15 years extensive international expertise gained in both private practice and in house. She has worked across diverse industries including the recruitment sector, overseeing corporate, commercial and employment law matters.
Shazia provides expert guidance to members and trusted partners on legal issues and regulatory changes affecting the industry, overseeing our members’ and trusted partners’ adherence to our codes of conduct, and delivering legal services to members including model documents, precedents, legal updates, and the legal helpdesk. She works alongside Tania Bowers on APSCo's public affairs, representing our members’ interests in consultations with the government and other bodies on regulatory change.
Dawn Ford
Opus Talent Solutions, Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance
Dawn has 20 years’ experience as a career in house lawyer, company secretary and director in the recruitment industry, in both private and publicly listed organisations. For 14 of those years she has chaired, on a voluntary basis, the Legal Forum at APSCo – the major trade association for professional recruitment companies in the UK – giving her a voice in Government consultations and within the industry, alike.
She is known for her pragmatic, commercially focussed advice and is adept with both local and global legal work, as a trusted partner and confidante of the business.
Dawn has held a variety of trusteeships, including as a school governor and a trustee of a local community centre. She remains a trustee of a community theatre and is a volunteer with the bereavement team at St Christopher’s Hospice, a world class provider of palliative and end of life care, primarily serving the residents of five boroughs in south London.