Employment Rights Online: The Podcast

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 recent victory for Amazon drivers who successfully took their case for employment status, to an employment tribunal and won. Amazon drivers were classified as self employed, when they were really workers and employees. This case throws u...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there As the “new person” starting a new job in January 2025, you’re faced with the dual challenge of navigating a new environment and establishing yourself as a competent, reliable team member. So, in support of you or anyone you know, who is starting a new job in January 2025;...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there If you are listening to this episode at the start of 2025 - Happy New Year. We look forward to having you with us in 2025 as we continue to dissect the most important movements in the world of your employment rights.  In this week’s episode we look at the increasing concern...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi There What a year we have had for 2024. The new government telegraphed some major employment rights shifts in 2024, with the introduction of the Employment Rights Bill… marking a substantial overhaul of existing legislation. As we close out the year, we take you through the key 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 the worrying trend of young workers being recruited by influencer-led free lance agencies, as freelance workers. A freelance worker is more likely to be self employed, rather than an agency worker – and the impact of a freelance worker em...

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 know that navigating a work Christmas party when there are colleagues you'd rather avoid, can be a major challenge - especially when the people you want to avoid might be your bosses or the bosses pet employee.   So we continue the Christmas...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there In this week’s podcast episode, we look at two case studies that highlight your rights and responsibilities; and, your employer’s duty of care towards you when it comes to the office Christmas party and other workplace festive activities.  It's our view, that the more...

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 bring you an update about the proposed changes being introduced by the Labour government, regarding statutory sick pay. Most of what was committed to is there, but there is a key aspect of the commitment which is missing. We focus on this, in the p...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there In this week’s podcast episode, we look at the changes announced in October 2024, to the much touted new employment right of ‘protection from unfair dismissal from day one of your employment’. From the government announcements, all is not as it was initially advertised to b...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we follow on from last week’s episode, where an employee was dismissed for verbally abusing his colleague – then took his case to an Employment Tribunal. The Tribunal agreed the employee was unfairly dismissed and also noted that the choice of dismissal was too ha...

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 what can happen at work if you swear at - or with your colleagues at work, and find yourself at the receiving end of a disciplinary hearing. We also look at what may happen if you face the sack for gross misconduct for swearing at wor...

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 how you might be able to distinguish between normal office banter and comments that stray into the lane of harassment. This is important because understanding the difference between innocent remarks and remarks intended to harass you...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we look at your employment rights in relation to the use of guide dogs and support dogs at work. We look at how both are reflected in employment rights case law and we use a couple of case studies to update you on the current legal position for being able to have...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com In this week’s episode we look at a case that defined the ground for male sexual harassment in the workplace. We pay particular attention to how language was used to make a male worker feel degraded in the workplace, and we explore the reasons why an Employment Tribunal accepted an...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we look at your new prevention of sexual harassment employment rights, which are scheduled to come online on 24th October 2024. We also look at changes the new law brings to the way your employer has to deal with sexual harassment in your workplace, and we look at...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we bring you an update on a podcast episode we did in June 2023… which highlighted the changes that were coming into play about the tips you receive from customers. From the 1st October 2024, the new tipping regulations became employment law, and your employer mus...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we wade into the debate about whether you should be able to work from home and the office as part of your working week - what is more commonly termed… hybrid working.      We also take you through the government’s top five reasons for pushing it’s policy of hybrid...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we’re looking at a massive case that Tesco has just lost in the UK Supreme Courts, which has dented a hole in Tesco’s plans to use ‘Fire and Rehire’ tactics to remove expensive employment rights from some of its workforce. The implications for the protection of em...

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 bring you an update from podcast episode 196 of this podcast, about the progress of the new labour government in bringing online, new employment rights for a four-day work week. The government is planning to bring new legislation online in the Aut...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we look at concerns if your boss or your company always expect you to be logged on or at work, even after you have finished your shift or your hours for the day. We touch on the increasing levels of ‘workaholicism’, this treatment is creating, and plans by the UK...

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 update on a major successful sex discrimination and equal pay claim that has taken a whole six years to be completed. This is the first successful equal pay claim in the private sector and in what is being seen as a landmark victory for female wor...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we answer a listener’s question. Our listener informed us that her friend who is a cleaner was sacked from her agency cleaning job because she ate a cheese sandwich that was left-over from a meeting.  We look at whether the action of dismissal was a standard react...

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 the difference between a Subject Access Request and a Freedom of Information Request, when used to obtain information from your employer that you might wish to use in pursuing a complaint about unfair treatment at work.  It's our view,...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there Hi there This week we are completing our look at sex discrimination at work, by looking at some of the more shocking cases that have come through a UK employment tribunal. The aim of this week’s podcast episode is to support an understanding that sex discrimination at work...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we’re into the final topic area of our mini-series on discrimination at work, focusing on protected characteristics. In this week’s episode we focus on sex discrimination at work - not to be confused with gender or gender reassignment discrimination. It's our...