Employment Law Matters

In this episode, you’ll learn about whistleblowing, including:-

• How can you tell if something is a protected disclosure?
• What are the pros and cons of an interim relief application?
• When is a disclosure in the public interest?

Daniel discusses the topic with Tom Croxford KC from Blackstone Chambers.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about conduct dismissals, including:-

• how to deal with misconduct that takes place outside of the workplace
• the interaction between misconduct dismissals and dismissals for some other substantial reason
• how to manage conduct issues where the employee suffers from poor mental health

Daniel discusses the topic with Imogen Egan from Outer Temple Chambers.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about grievances at work, including:-

• How to deal with employees raising multiple grievances
• The interaction between grievance and disciplinary procedures
• Dealing with grievances from an ex-employee

Daniel discusses the topic with Darren Newman.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about employee data, monitoring and privacy, including:-

• When a subject access request is considered excessive
• The biggest pitfall employers fall into when capturing data
• Whether an employer needs consent to use work monitoring software? 

Daniel discusses the topic with Jeremy Scott-Joynt from Outer Temple Chambers.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about union recognition and collective bargaining, including:-

• Top tips on dealing with a difficult union representative
• Who can be a companion to help represent employees in workplace formal processes?
• How to run collective bargaining negotiations

Daniel discusses the topic with Sarah Fraser-Butlin from Cloisters Chambers.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about time limits in the employment tribunal, including:-

• The tests for getting an extension of time in the employment tribunal
• What does it mean when a discriminatory act extends over a period?
• Does lodging a grievance pause or extend the time limits?

Daniel discusses the topic with Rebecca Tuck KC from Old Square Chambers.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about restrictive covenants, including:-

• How does an employer actually go about enforcing a restrictive covenant?
• In cases of constructive dismissal, are employees still bound by their restrictive covenants?
• Should time-limited restrictive convenants take probationary periods into account?

Daniel discusses the topic with Adam Solomon KC from Littleton Chambers.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about mental health in the workplace, including:-

• How to reconcile the tension between poor performance and looking after employees mental health.
• How to become a mental health first aider
• Is an occupational health report better than a GP report?

Daniel discusses the topic with Jodie Hill from Thrive Law.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about tribunal procedure, including:-

• Can a Claimant speak to the press while the case is ongoing?
• Are covert phone recordings admissible?
• What can you do if a witness is not available for the hearing?

Daniel discusses the topic with Jude Shepherd from 42 Bedford Row.

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In this bonus episode, you’ll learn about wellbeing in the workplace. Our guests from Season 5 give you their top tips on wellbeing - the secret passageway to productivity.   

This podcast  is supported by didlaw  and by Recruitment HR  and by the HR Inner Circle (the UK's leading community for smart, ambitious HR Professionals).

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My books include the Employment Law Handbook, Resolving Grievances and Decons...

In this episode, you’ll learn about stupid tribunal applications, including:-

·      what types of applications are common

·      unless orders and strike out applications

·      costs in the employment tribunal

Daniel discusses the topic with Michael Salter from 42 Bedford Row.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about flexible working, including:-

•       what’s happened during and since Covid
•       what the government proposals for reform are
•       what happens in the future if the proposals don’t go through

Daniel discusses the topic with Rebecca Tuck KC from Old Square Chambers.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about a day in the life of a law centre advisor, including:-

• what a typical day working in a law centre involves
• how early settlement opportunities can be missed
• why it’s a myth that employment tribunals are so straightforward that you can represent yourself

Daniel discusses the topic with Audrey Ludwig from Suffolk Law Centre.

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In this episode, you’ll learn all about grievances in the workplace, including:-

• whether grievances actually solve anything
• what to do when you think a grievance is false or malicious
• how to deal with grievances raised during other processes, such as disciplinary or redundancy processes

Daniel discusses the topic with Simon Stephen from Gowling WLG.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about constructive dismissal, including:-

·       what amounts to a repudiatory breach?

·       waiving the breach

·      the 'last straw' doctrine

Daniel discusses the topic with Marc Jones from Marjon Law.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about social media and free speech at work, including:-

·       dismissal following social media posts

·       protected beliefs under the Equality Act

·       how to deal with complaints about speech outside of work

Daniel discusses the topic with Gus Baker from Outer Temple Chambers.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about the role of a trade union representative, including:-

·       balancing being an employee and trade union official

·       life as a chief executive of a trade union

·      individual casework v collective negotiations

Daniel discusses the topic with Tristan Ashby from the Fire and Rescue Services Association.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about the tricky issues associated with pregnancy and maternity rights in the workplace, including:-

• how pregnancy/maternity is legally different from other protected characteristics
• tricky pay issues, eg should women on maternity pay receive bonuses paid to other employees?
• tricky issues to do with redundancy, eg what happens when an employer realises that it doesn’t need the role any more, as there’...

In this episode, you’ll learn about making reasonable adjustments in the workplace, including:-

·       what are reasonable adjustments?

·        when should employers make such adjustments? 

·       common adjustments in the workplace

Daniel discusses the topic with Kate Lea from didlaw.

This podcast  is supported by didlaw  and by Recruitment HR  and by the HR Inner Circle (the UK's leading community for smart, ambitiou...