Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there, As we continue our look into the new employment rights coming your way as parts of the Employment Rights Bill, in this last episode for the year. We look at the new sexual harassment employment rights that will come into force in 2026. From April 2026, your complaints and disclosures about sexual harassment, will be protected by Whistleblowing protections, and w...

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 bring you an update about how your probationary contract rights have been affected by your new unfair dismissal rights, which come online in January 2027. For the last 25 years, being dismissed during your probation period or even well after you finished your probation, came with very little employment rights. All this has changed, a...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there, On 4th December 2025, after pressure from big business and after months of political back-and-forth - and honestly, a fair bit of drama and game playing, ministers have now confirmed a firm agreement about your unfair dismissal employment rights. In this week’s episode, we take you through those new employment rights, and the date from which, you will get your ...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there If you listened to last week’s episode, you will know that the number 1 topic you have listened to on this podcast is Bullying, Harassment And Toxic Workplace Cultures. So, in 2026… this will be the number 1 topic that we will address, as our 2026 theme. Our whole Bullying, Harassment And Toxic Workplace Cultures programme is intended to support you to deal with ...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there Can you believe it! We are 300 episodes into this fantastic podcast, which has helped so many workers to understand their employment rights and take a stand against unfair treatment. In recognition of your courage and commitment to standing up for what’s right, in this week’s episode we take a look at your best bits and your most favoured podcast over the life of...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there, Imagine this: you're at work, trying to get on with your job, when colleagues nearby start sharing offensive jokes about women, homosexuality, and sex. The jokes aren't aimed at you directly, but you have to hear them… every day! What would you do? How would it make you feel? We look at this issue through a case that recently came out of the employment tribunal,...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week, we look at a case that has just come out of an employment tribunal, which helps to strengthen the rights of workers when a boss crosses the line with a comment that feels, just – wrong! And as if that was not bad enough, that comment then turns out to be the start of a whole process of trying to get rid of you, to avoid you getting your full employment right...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we look at a case that has just exploded into the headlines, that seems to strengthen the hand of employers dramatically when workers band together to talk about problems you are having at work. It’s a case about pay cuts and a private WhatsApp group, and focuses on how you can be in an online chat group talking about work issues, and then suddenly find yours...

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 case fresh out of the Employment Tribunal, which reminds you that our employment rights are there not just to support you to be treated fairly at work, but are also there to support you to challenge attempts to undermine your right to work. This week we focus on the case of Ms Annika Robinson, who challenged disability discrim...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there, This week we look at a case that has just come out of employment tribunal… which seems to strengthen the rights of employers, if you have a disability. And, you expect your boss to make reasonable adjustments for you - so you can remain at work. Added to this, the Equality Act 2010 makes it clear that employers must make changes to help disabled emp...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week, we look at a case that sounds funny - if it wasn’t so serious. This is the case of an employee with 27 years of service with his employer, who said something in jest… and it cost him his job. We look at what the employee said, how the company handled the situation and why the employee took his case to an employment tribunal… AND WON! We discuss a...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week we have great news for every working person in the UK. The government has just slammed the door shut on a plan, that would have made it impossible for you to challenge your employer in an employment tribunal, without paying fees! Bringing back fee-paying court systems into employment tribunals would have spelled disaster for hundreds of thousands of workers l...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi There… Zero hours contracts are often touted as the best way for workers to work in a flexible way, by taking work that fits their schedule. It’s also said that being able to work in this way, supports workers to have a better work life balance. So… what's wrong with them and why does the government want to ban these types of contracts. That’s the subject of this week’...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there This week, we look at a really sticky case that has just come out of the employment tribunal. This case involves an employer who won an employment tribunal case after refusing to employ someone because the prospective employee was not the right ‘fit’ for the team. The tribunal saw this as a perfectly legal action to take and denied the employee’s claims of unfairness.&...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there! We’ve all been there! But when your boss criticises your work, maybe they’re harsh and maybe that criticism feels unfair. It’s certainly frustrating and can make you feel terrible and less valued at work. But when does tough criticism cross the line into something illegal? This is the subject of this week’s podcast, which aims to support you to ask the rig...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi There and welcome to this week’s podcast. What if, in a heated moment, you actually called your boss a Dickhead? Surely, that would be an instant reason for your marching orders and dismissal for gross misconduct, right? Well… not necessarily! This week we take a look at a recent employment tribunal case which has shocked the legal and employer worlds, because it involves an...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there As the new employment rights bill continues to trundle its way through parliament, we use this week’s podcast to bring you the latest updates and changes to the bill, to keep you up to date with where things are. There are some interesting changes to look at and some new clarifications have also entered the frame. Overall, not much has changed, but the changes th...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there In our last podcast episode about references, we look at the specific cases of reference refusal linked to discrimination and whistleblowing, and the key points you need to have in mind, when thinking about making a complaint to an employment tribunal. We look at the important role played by the ‘Continuing Act’ principle, in discrimination cases… and we also loo...

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 devastating impact of being denied a fair reference after dismissal, through the eyes of leading employment tribunal cases, that have made it possible for employees to seek redress for bad ‘treatment linked to the weaponisation of their reference. We also take you through several key cases that have laid the groundwork for e...

Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there Having spent several weeks looking at coercive dismissals, we would be failing you if we didn’t look at one of the most complained about issues for UK workers following dismissal. That issue, is the issue of securing a reference from your last employer, when that employer has dismissed you from your job. In the episode, we look at several situations where you could fin...