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Employment Rights Online: The Podcast - is a podcast for employees and workers! The podcast looks at all things to do with employment rights, employment wrongs and other job related matters. Dr Asher Sefanit-Wudasee, your podcast host, is an experienced employment rights advocate, having spent 25 years working with trade unions whilst also serving as an Employment Tribunal Lay Judge. Dr Asher delves into these subjects from the point of view of all types of employees and workers! There are podcasts out there, that focus on what employers need to know, to be ahead of problems their staff might have or might cause for their business. Employment Rights Online comes at the subject of 'employment rights' from the position of workers and workers' rights! Want to know how to deal with bullying at work, how to manage toxic relationships, or about grievance and disciplinary procedures or how to manage disputes at work - this is the podcast for you. Want to know about how your job might be affected by the working time directive, flexible working or lone working - this is the podcast for you! Are you interested in what your boss might be looking at during your forthcoming appraisal - we can help with that. Looking to repair your damaged professional reputation because of poor treatment at work - we can help with that. This podcast covers these problems and many more. We believe that the time to get on terms with your employment rights is when things are calm at work and not when things are going wrong! When things are calm, it's much easier to take the information in and follow through with employment protection actions. And that's why we're here! Employment Rights Online: The Podcast, aims to bridge that gap between not knowing about employment rights - and being able to take effective actions to protect yourself and your rights at work. Whilst Employment Rights Online has sought to ensure that the information is accurate and up to date, Dr Asher and Employment Rights Online are not responsible and will not be held liable for any inaccuracies and, or related consequences, including any loss arising from relying on this information. If you are in need of legal advise to address an employment problem, please contact your usual services as soon as possible for advice.
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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...
Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there and welcome to our last episode of this mini series on coercive dismissals. We end the series by looking at real employment tribunal cases tackling the issue of coercion in constructive unfair dismissal cases, where outcomes were either positive or negative for employees. The aim of sharing these cases with you, is to highlight how your employment rights operate ...
Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there. In this week’s penultimate episode on coercive constructive dismissals, we look at the three key hoops you will have to jump through, to win your employment tribunal case. We also take a look at key steps and documents you will need, to help you prove your case. Your employment rights are set up to recognise that you could have been pressured out of your job; an...
Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there In this episode in our ‘Coercive Dismissals’ mini series, we look at the actions you can take to challenge your employer’s attempts to remove you from your job using coercive tactics and behaviours. Your employment rights are set up to recognise that you could have been pressured out of your job; and, employment tribunals understand the tactics employers will use...
Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi There! This week we continue our mini-series on coercive dismissals by looking at ‘Whistleblowing Coercive Dismissals’. Whistleblowing declarations are also known as protected disclosures, and are a protected employment right that you have, from day one of your employment, meaning that if you make a genuine whistleblowing declaration, you cannot be treated less favourably f...
Leave comments and questions here. If you would like a response, use our email: enquiries@employmentrightsonline.com Hi there Okay… grab a cup of tea and a biscuit if you have one, because big news just hit the airwaves and it’s the kind of news that will make you sit up and take notice. The government announced on 08/07/2025, a ban against your bosses using coercive sneaky non disclosure agreements, which we spoke about in last week’s episode. Now, your employer will no longer be able...
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