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ARTICLE · 07 OCTOBER 2025

HR Briefing - October 2025

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Recruiting and retaining talent is at the core of almost all organisations, and that usually means competing with other firms.

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Hayley Robinson
Hayley Robinson
Matthew Ramsey
Matthew Ramsey

Welcome to this month's briefing for HR teams and in-house employment counsel – bringing you this month's employment law highlights in an easy-to-read package.

Competing for talent

Recruiting and retaining talent is at the core of almost all organisations, and that usually means competing with other firms. Employment lawyers and HR teams tend only to think about competition law when they are drafting post-termination restrictive covenants or confidentiality provisions, or trying to litigate them. There is actually a far deeper crossover between employment and competition law, and this is an area of increasing focus for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Kayleigh Leonie from our Employment team, and Greg Dowell and Fionna Beattie from our Competition team, have recently published a fascinating article exploring some of these themes, covering in particular the CMA's new guidance for employers.

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