Employment Rights Online: The Podcast

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi Everyone I hope you’re having a positive employment rights week. This week, we begin our series of podcasts about looking more in-depth at the various types of paid an unpaid time off, by starting with looking at annual leave. In this week’s episode we look at the rules governing...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com P30 The 10 Different Types of Time Off From Work You Need to Know About Hi Everyone I hope you’re having a positive employment rights week. This week… as we start to move back into employment proper, we’re going to look at the ten different types of time off from work that you need...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi Everyone I hope you’re having a productive week. This week, we continue our discussion about unethical behaviour at work – only this week, we look at the far more serious topic of whistleblowing.  Whistleblowing, or to use its legal name, public interest disclosure, is far more s...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi Everyone I hope you’re doing okay … as many of you receive the call to return to the workplace full time, whilst many more are finding out that your employers may demand much more loyalty from you … just to keep your job. And that leads us to the topic of this week’s podcast … wh...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi Everyone In this week’s podcast, I make a quick reference to the new guidance that has just been issued by central government …about calculating statutory holiday pay.  The regulations were actually updated on 06/04/2020.  Whereas calculations for holiday pay, for people on fixed...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com I hope you’re having a positive employment rights week. This week we’re looking at the arrangements for dealing with bullying and harassment at work … as people start returning to work in greater numbers. Research shows that at least one in four workers experience some form of bully...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi Everyone We hope you’re having a positive employment rights week. This week we’re continuing with our series of podcasts on the status of workers.  This week we particularly want to look at the difference in employment status between temporary workers and agency workers, because...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi Everyone I hope you’re having a great employment rights week, as we move further towards full return to the workplace. This week we have another listener’s question, which is a great question - and one which came off the back of last week’s podcast episode about the employment st...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there Thanks for tuning in and I hope you’re having a safe employment week. This week, in the midst of all the corona-influenced job losses, people are now going to start signing up with employment agencies again - in big numbers, as a way of getting back into some type of employ...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hey everyone I hope you are doing okay, and if you have returned to work, I hope you are able to navigate the new normal. Last week we received a question from a listener … who listened to the first podcast and posed the following question: “Hi. I was being investigated for somethin...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hey everyone I hope you are managing to find your way through the 14th week of lockdown or working from home... whichever is taking up your days. This week’s podcast is a continuation from last week’s subject of constructive dismissal.  In this week’s episode, we look at the respons...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi Everyone I hope you are managing to stay sane, as we move to the 13th week of lockdown.! This week we have seen increased numbers of people going back to work after the lockdown, and with that comes complaints by workers, that their employers are attempting to alter their contrac...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi everyone I hope you are doing okay, as we enter the 12th week of lockdown.    This week, I’ve been asked to say something about challenging racism at work, in light of what is happening in the world following the death of George Floyd, which is being described as a hate crime and...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi everyone I hope you are doing okay, as we enter the 11th week of lockdown. As employers scrabble to get everyone back to work, I want to talk about pregnancy-related employment rights, because … well… I’ve had a number of queries about whether the rights of women would change if...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hey everyone Welcome to this week’s episode. This week I want to alert you to a matter, abut which you need to have your wits about you.  This week I’m talking about the signs you need to look out for, to make sure you’re not a victim of furlough fraud.  Last week HMRC reported a re...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hey everyone.        I hope everyone is doing as well as can be expected. This week, we’re looking at a question that is coming up increasingly and it’s the question of what happens when you turn up to work as normal, only to find that your employer tells you there’s no work for you...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hey there Well!  The big announcement that came from government in the last week, is that there will be an easing of lockdown rules for workers, with an expectation that people start returning to work from 13/05/2020 - if they can do so safety.  No mention of where you will get your...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi Everyone I hope you’re continuing to keep yourself safe and that you’re doing well. The government have been pretty quiet this week, in relation to employment rights and covid-19 news.  Not much has come out at all since our podcast last week, but you can bet that there is much c...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hey there I hope your doing well and managing to stay safe, in what could well be the sixth week of working from home for some and several weeks into lockdown for most people. I wanted to touch on a question that came up in a conversation I was having with someone making an enquiry...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hello everyone I hope you’re managing to stay safe and in good health.                    We’re moving into the fifth week of being furloughed and the fourth week of lockdown, and one of the emerging concerns about this current situation, is how employers are managing the mental hea...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hello Everyone In this weeks podcast, we address the concerning issue of the coronavirus, health and safety at work and how these two matters are impacing frontline workers who are battling the virus.  In particular, we look at the impact of the concerns about 'Personal Protect...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hey there Welcome to this week's edition of the podcast. In this weeks edition, we're looking at the new advice on taking holidays and holiday pay for workers who are furloughed.  We are also looking at the new types of workers who have been added to the Job Retention Sche...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hey there Thanks for tuning into the podcast. This week, we're still focused on the way in which the corona virus is is impacting your employment status and changing your employment rights. This week we look at a couple of issues that have arisen with your employer's inter...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hey there I hope we’re all managing to stay safe in these testing times. Since we were here last week, things have certainly ramped up again. By now, as many as a fifth of the UK workforce will be working from home because of the corona virus.  That’s as many as 6million workers.  A...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hey there I hope we’re all managing to stay safe in these testing times.   Which brings me onto todays podcast topic. Lots of people have been contacting me, asking about their employment rights during this corona virus outbreak that we’re dealing with.  It’s clear from the question...