Employment Rights Online: The Podcast

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we’re bringing you an update about your new Unfair Dismissal Rights, which we last podcasted about in December 2025.  In that episode we told you that from 1st January 2027, anyone with six months' continuous service will be able to claim unfair dismissal. Bu...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there, This week we are looking at the new data protection employment rights that you gained on 19th June 2026. In fact, this right is so new, you are likely to not even know this right exists because there was no build up to it. And, what that right is – is your new employment r...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there. This week - as the UK experiences some of its most extreme temperatures ever recorded for this time of year, we are talking about something that affects workers in every sector - and that is the question of what your employment rights actually say when your workplace becom...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there. This week as we move into the holiday season proper, we're talking about something that affects almost every worker in the UK at some point - and that is the strange and frustrating reality that millions of you are simply not taking the annual leave that you are legal...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there. This week, we’re talking about something that is becoming more and more common in the world of work and most workers have absolutely no idea that it is happening to them or that they have rights around it. We’re talking about automated decision-making in recruitment and se...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there. This week, news out of employment rights land has caused us to interrupt our podcast schedule again. We are talking about a change that is quietly making its way through Parliament… and will have a real and practical impact on thousands of workers across the UK from 1st Oc...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there. Last week we talked about everything YOU can do, practically and personally, to improve your chances of getting back into work when you have a criminal record. This week we explore the employment rights and legal protections that exist - to stop employers from simply shutt...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there. This week, we’re taking a slight detour to address a question that has been hanging around in our mail inbox for a couple of months.  We’re talking about how to get a job when you have a criminal record. Millions of people carry some form of criminal record whilst trying t...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there.  After spending the last two podcasts looking at AI taking jobs, this week we are looking at a court case that could end up affecting thousands of workers across the UK if you work in the gig economy. What is that case? Just Eat Couriers have just launched one of the bigge...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there In last week’s episode we talked you through what your workplace might look like if AI is coming to a job near you. This week, we take a look at what might happen, if you have to attend a dreaded AI role evaluation meeting.  Our FREE ‘WRITE IT DOWN’ Bullying Guide and Griev...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there, This week, we’re stepping into a conversation that is everywhere right now including in our email bag. That big question is - whether AI is coming for your job, and what you can do to prepare? Our FREE ‘WRITE IT DOWN’ Bullying Guide and Grievance Complaints Checklist are a...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This is our last episode in our National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage series, and this week we look at some of the reasons your employers use for underpaying your wages, and some of the main underpayment traps and reasons given, for trying to hide the fact that you...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week, we take you through our annual trawl of government’s shame list of 518 companies who have been prosecuted by the government, for not paying their workers at correct legal wage rates.  Some of the people on that list, will shock you! You can download the full belo...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there, This week is National Minimum Wage Week and National Living Wage Week, so in this week’s episode we take an in-depth look at the new legal pay rates you should have been receiving from 1st April 2026.  We’re always interested in your views, so let us know in our comments s...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there In the final part of our stress at work mini-series, we look at how you bring a grievance against your manager or the company, if you have tried raising concerns about stress and nothing changes.  Our FREE ‘WRITE IT DOWN’ Bullying Guide and Grievance Complaints Checklist ar...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there  In this week’s episode, we outline the steps you can take to alert your employer to the stressful treatment you are being subjected to - going all the way up to what you need to have in mind if you are intending to bring a case to employment tribunal, for stress you have s...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there, In this week’s episode, we explore the issue of stress in the workplace against a backdrop of 7 out of every ten workers, suffering stress.  We look at two key cases, which helped to establish employment rights principles for workers bringing cases to court, that include h...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there and welcome to the last episode in our mini series about name-calling bullying. In the last two episodes, we’ve looked at how to challenge name calling bullying using the Equalities Act and using stalking legislation in the civil courts. In this week’s episode, we look at t...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there In this week’s episode, we look at how a worker challenged name-calling bullying, by taking his employer through the civil courts using stalking laws via a non-employment rights piece of legislation.  Today, the case of Majrowski vs Guys & St Thomas’ Hospital, continues...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we look at the often touchy and upsetting subject of your bullying work colleagues giving you a nickname that is intended to extend their bullying of you. Many workers experience workplace bullying that is subtle, normalised, and difficult to challenge, and one of...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there In last week’s podcast episode we talked about polygamous working.  This week’s episode is about those real UK cases and workers who held multiple full-time jobs at the same time, without telling their employers, how long they did it, how much they earned (or tried to earn)...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we take a look at the often controversial world of polygamous working. If you don’t know what that is, or whether this is something you are practicing, this is the podcast episode for you.  In this episode, we look at what polygamous working actually is; what the...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there So… another week … another set of workers who are challenging their employer about their employment status. And, this week, we look at why dozens of NHS delivery drivers are challenging their Royal Mail employer because they say their employer has categorised them as self e...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there, In this week’s episode, we look at a form of bullying which up to 14million of you are suffering from in the UK, as we speak. That form of bullying is called Sabotage Bullying .  Sabotage bullying behaviour is some of the most damaging bullying at work because it is quiete...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there In this week’s episode, we’re looking at the impact of constant criticism at work and why this is a form of bullying, rather than you just having an over-zealous boss. We also talk about how you can tell the difference between genuine feedback, which should assist you and h...