Members meeting Manchester: Changing market dynamics in contract recruitment

Gemma is a specialist UK in-bound immigration partner in the Employment Department at JMW Solicitors LLP, with over 10 years of experience in UK immigration law. She advises HR teams on right-to-work checks, sponsors Skilled Workers and Global Business Mobility migrants, and ensures sponsor licence compliance through audits. She has helped organisations navigate complex immigration routes, including securing a rare Global Business Mobility Service Supplier sponsor licence. Gemma also supports private clients with partner visas, settlement applications, EU immigration matters, British citizenship cases, and investor and entrepreneur visas.

Crawford Temple is the CEO and founder of Professional Passport which was established in 2007 as the UK’s largest independent assessor of payment intermediary compliance. Its mission is to create a more level playing field across the sector and provide a positive differentiation for those providers operating in line with those standards. Today, Professional Passport is widely recognised as the benchmark of provider compliance with many in the supply chain today insisting on using Professional Passport accredited providers. As an expert and veteran of the industry, Crawford wrote the first book on operational compliance for umbrella providers and in 2021 he wrote The Good, The Bad and The Ugly which highlighted the challenges facing the umbrella market. Crawford is a prolific industry commentator and works closely with many key Government departments on all matters relating to supply chain compliance to support and promote the sector and drive-up standards.

Dan Haslam is Giant Group’s Chief Business Development Officer, where his key focus is helping clients manage their contingent workers compliantly and cost effectively, using the whole range of Giant’s services and products. 

Dan has over 15 years’ experience in the industry so understands first-hand the challenges businesses face when it comes to changing legislation and the constant flux of risk and legislation that impacts the contingent worker market.