Employment Rights and Wrongs
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
It's "Budget Eve" -- and Sean Farrington takes a look at why Cash ISAs and tax free savings are grabbing the headlines today.
Elsewhere, Sean takes a look at the Employment Rights Bill, which is in its final stages in the Houses of Parliament.
The boss of the UK's biggest business lobby group says it could be "damaging" -- we hear from one holiday business how it could affect them.
And with one month till Christmas, what are the changing trends and tastes in advent calendars for grown ups? Sean finds out...
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it. |
| 0:13.3 | But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go? |
| 0:19.2 | I remember having this very sharp thought |
| 0:21.7 | that what you do right now, |
| 0:23.6 | this is it, this defines your life. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm ready to talk and ready to listen. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm insulted by how little the medical community is ever bothered with this. |
| 0:33.9 | Ready to talk with me, Emma Barnard, is my new podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.4 | Welcome. Welcome. It is Wake Up to Money. A month until Christmas. It's Budget Eve. Cash |
| 0:47.9 | Isis. Tax-free savings grabbing their headlines today. Will the threshold be cut tomorrow? |
| 0:53.8 | We'll have a look at what that |
| 0:55.0 | impact could be. Elsewhere, we're going to hear from one holiday business about how the employment |
| 0:59.8 | rights bill could be affected them as it goes through its final stages in the Houses of Parliament. |
| 1:06.9 | And what are the changing trends with that month to go? Tastes in Advent calendars for grown-ups. |
| 1:13.4 | We're going to find out what that's all about. |
| 1:14.9 | Wake up to Money with Sean Farrington. |
| 1:18.0 | Good morning to you. |
| 1:19.5 | Wake Up to Money on BBC 5 live. |
| 1:22.9 | We are at Tuesday, the 25th of November. |
| 1:25.7 | It is just after 5 o'clock. |
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