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Trusted Partner Forum
Thursday 19th June 2025
Registrations and refreshments 2:30pm-3:00pm
Meeting: 3:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: Trowers & Hamlins, 3 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8YZ
Networking drinks from 5:00pm
Please note, this event is for APSCo Trusted Partners only.
3:00pm Welcome & Introduction
Amy Davies, Managing Director Workwell Global
3:05pm APSCo Update & recap
Moya Rylands, Commercial Director, APSCo UK
Recap of key initiatives launched in 2025, including the referral and discount schemes
Progress updates and plans for future growth
3:20pm Legal update on the Employment Rights Bill
Nicola Ihnatowicz, Employment Lawyer, Trowers & Hamlins
Nicola will focus on the latest updates to the Employment Rights Bill and how the proposed legislative changes may impact recruitment businesses. She will cover key areas of employment law reform and explore what these developments mean for business operations and workforce planning.
The session will also examine the future of zero hours contracts, agency temps, and umbrella companies, highlighting the evolving landscape of flexible working arrangements. It will address the regulatory complexities surrounding these staffing models.
3:40pm Strategic and operational readiness for employment law reforms
Shazia Imtiaz, Lead Counsel, APSCo
Shazia will discuss the practical considerations to prepare for the employment law reforms outlining the key strategic and operational considerations organisations must address to ensure compliance. The session will also examine the anticipated behavioural shifts within the recruitment sector, providing insights into how these legal changes are likely to reshape industry practices, risk management, and workforce planning.
4:00pm Panel discussion
Panellists will discuss the state of the recruitment market and how they are responding as a business to the current market conditions, as well as exploring how APSCo's Trusted Partner community add value to staffing firms?
Panellists:
4:50pm Q&A and close
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.
Trowers & Hamlins, Partner, Employment and Pensions
Nicola Ihnatowicz is a partner in the Employment and Pensions Department at Trowers & Hamlins LLP, and specialises in all aspects of human resources and employment law for employers and recruitment businesses.
Nicola specialises in supporting businesses to become "Employers of the Future". Her expertise includes advising on sustainable workforces, achieving inclusivity and business transformation. She also supports employers with difficult employee relations matters, such as changing terms and conditions, managing stress at work, reasonable adjustments, discrimination and harassment investigations, and restructures and redundancies.
Nicola regularly advises and represents clients on Employment Tribunal matters and has recently dealt with complex claims for discrimination and harassment, holiday pay, whistleblowing and workplace stress. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences, including the firm's weekly online Q&A "Trowers Tuesday".
Nicola chairs the firm's Social Impact Committee and has experience as a charity trustee.
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