Emiliano Mellino
@mellino.bsky.social
Journalist at @tbij.bsky.social. I cover inequality, precarious work and migration.
You can contact me on emilianomellino@tbij.com
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/profile/emilianomellino
https://linktr.ee/emiliano.mellino
You can contact me on emilianomellino@tbij.com
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/profile/emilianomellino
https://linktr.ee/emiliano.mellino
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
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Such a great piece from @tbij.bsky.social that highlights how difficult it is for workers to access and enforce their rights - it shows truly staggering figures of non-payment of tribunal awards by employers, and that's not even counting the personal cost to workers.
Last year, Nadine made headlines after she was awarded £65,000 for unfair dismissal by Peckham Levels
Preparing for the tribunal cost Nadine her health – but she has yet to see the money
Preparing for the tribunal cost Nadine her health – but she has yet to see the money
October 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Such a great piece from @tbij.bsky.social that highlights how difficult it is for workers to access and enforce their rights - it shows truly staggering figures of non-payment of tribunal awards by employers, and that's not even counting the personal cost to workers.
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Vital investigative journalism. Employment lawyers please check this out.
Last year, Nadine made headlines after she was awarded £65,000 for unfair dismissal by Peckham Levels
Preparing for the tribunal cost Nadine her health – but she has yet to see the money
Preparing for the tribunal cost Nadine her health – but she has yet to see the money
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Vital investigative journalism. Employment lawyers please check this out.
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More on this important investigative journalism about Employment Tribunals here
🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
More on this important investigative journalism about Employment Tribunals here
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Incredible courage in the face of indescribable suffering. A women's film festival held in the rubble of Gaza.
By Ibtisam Mahdi in @972mag.com
www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...
By Ibtisam Mahdi in @972mag.com
www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...
In a tent in central Gaza, a women’s film festival is born
Held over six days last week, the inaugural International Festival for Women's Cinema was ‘an affirmation that Gaza loves life despite the genocide.’
www.972mag.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Incredible courage in the face of indescribable suffering. A women's film festival held in the rubble of Gaza.
By Ibtisam Mahdi in @972mag.com
www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...
By Ibtisam Mahdi in @972mag.com
www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...
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🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
Government's repeat protest restrictions worse than feared - Liberty
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
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The absolute state of employment tribunals and enforcement here 🤯
🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The absolute state of employment tribunals and enforcement here 🤯
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Political wisdom does not in fact lie in shrinking and contorting yourself into whatever shape an imagined white conservative might find tolerable. You can be authentically, cheerfully yourself, and set your stall out on that basis.
Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Political wisdom does not in fact lie in shrinking and contorting yourself into whatever shape an imagined white conservative might find tolerable. You can be authentically, cheerfully yourself, and set your stall out on that basis.
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Journalists can often be victims of their pre-conceived ideas (see the Times/De Blasio fiasco). One of the ways we've avoided that is by working closely with experts.
Check out this piece by my colleague @lucybrisbane.bsky.social on how we did it in our recent employment tribunals investigation.
Check out this piece by my colleague @lucybrisbane.bsky.social on how we did it in our recent employment tribunals investigation.
I've worked in charities, campaigns & journalism. Often each sector wants the same thing- change. But we rarely join forces to make it happen.
I wrote about how we're trying to create cross sector collaboration at @tbij.bsky.social with advisory groups⬇️
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
I wrote about how we're trying to create cross sector collaboration at @tbij.bsky.social with advisory groups⬇️
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Doing journalism differently: how we built our latest collaborative…
For our investigation into employment tribunals, we joined forces with others who wanted to see the system change
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Journalists can often be victims of their pre-conceived ideas (see the Times/De Blasio fiasco). One of the ways we've avoided that is by working closely with experts.
Check out this piece by my colleague @lucybrisbane.bsky.social on how we did it in our recent employment tribunals investigation.
Check out this piece by my colleague @lucybrisbane.bsky.social on how we did it in our recent employment tribunals investigation.
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Demand an #EmploymentRightsBill2 ✊
We need a £15 per hour minimum wage now.
Support the call to finish the job on employment rights: bit.ly/DemandERB2
#StrikeMap #EmploymentRightsBill #WorkersRights #Workers #Power #TradeUnions #UnionPower
We need a £15 per hour minimum wage now.
Support the call to finish the job on employment rights: bit.ly/DemandERB2
#StrikeMap #EmploymentRightsBill #WorkersRights #Workers #Power #TradeUnions #UnionPower
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Demand an #EmploymentRightsBill2 ✊
We need a £15 per hour minimum wage now.
Support the call to finish the job on employment rights: bit.ly/DemandERB2
#StrikeMap #EmploymentRightsBill #WorkersRights #Workers #Power #TradeUnions #UnionPower
We need a £15 per hour minimum wage now.
Support the call to finish the job on employment rights: bit.ly/DemandERB2
#StrikeMap #EmploymentRightsBill #WorkersRights #Workers #Power #TradeUnions #UnionPower
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While some journalists already know the story they want to write, @tbij.bsky.social let us show what really matters to our exploited clients.
Incredible work revealing the true scale of enforcement failure @mellino.bsky.social @lucybrisbane.bsky.social
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Incredible work revealing the true scale of enforcement failure @mellino.bsky.social @lucybrisbane.bsky.social
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
While some journalists already know the story they want to write, @tbij.bsky.social let us show what really matters to our exploited clients.
Incredible work revealing the true scale of enforcement failure @mellino.bsky.social @lucybrisbane.bsky.social
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Incredible work revealing the true scale of enforcement failure @mellino.bsky.social @lucybrisbane.bsky.social
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Journalists can often be victims of their pre-conceived ideas (see the Times/De Blasio fiasco). One of the ways we've avoided that is by working closely with experts.
Check out this piece by my colleague @lucybrisbane.bsky.social on how we did it in our recent employment tribunals investigation.
Check out this piece by my colleague @lucybrisbane.bsky.social on how we did it in our recent employment tribunals investigation.
I've worked in charities, campaigns & journalism. Often each sector wants the same thing- change. But we rarely join forces to make it happen.
I wrote about how we're trying to create cross sector collaboration at @tbij.bsky.social with advisory groups⬇️
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
I wrote about how we're trying to create cross sector collaboration at @tbij.bsky.social with advisory groups⬇️
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Doing journalism differently: how we built our latest collaborative…
For our investigation into employment tribunals, we joined forces with others who wanted to see the system change
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Journalists can often be victims of their pre-conceived ideas (see the Times/De Blasio fiasco). One of the ways we've avoided that is by working closely with experts.
Check out this piece by my colleague @lucybrisbane.bsky.social on how we did it in our recent employment tribunals investigation.
Check out this piece by my colleague @lucybrisbane.bsky.social on how we did it in our recent employment tribunals investigation.
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For our investigation into employment tribunals, we joined forces with others who wanted to see the system change
Find out how we did it: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Find out how we did it: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Doing journalism differently: how we built our latest collaborative…
For our investigation into employment tribunals, we joined forces with others who wanted to see the system change
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
For our investigation into employment tribunals, we joined forces with others who wanted to see the system change
Find out how we did it: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Find out how we did it: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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Bill will also go back to the commons to reconsider the unfair dismissal qualifying period. Government torn to shreds on that motion
October 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Bill will also go back to the commons to reconsider the unfair dismissal qualifying period. Government torn to shreds on that motion
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Government rather struggling in the Lords to defend a day one right to claim unfair dismissal
October 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Government rather struggling in the Lords to defend a day one right to claim unfair dismissal
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Lord Fox’s amendment is carried. That means the Bill must go back to the Commons! #employmentrightsbill
October 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Lord Fox’s amendment is carried. That means the Bill must go back to the Commons! #employmentrightsbill
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The removal of children on the advice of unregulated experts instructed by the family courts is a “national scandal”, the incoming victims' commissioner @ldnvictimscomm.bsky.social
has told @tbij.bsky.social. She is calling for an urgent review of all Melanie Gill's cases. 🧵 tinyurl.com/bp9smemn
has told @tbij.bsky.social. She is calling for an urgent review of all Melanie Gill's cases. 🧵 tinyurl.com/bp9smemn
October 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The removal of children on the advice of unregulated experts instructed by the family courts is a “national scandal”, the incoming victims' commissioner @ldnvictimscomm.bsky.social
has told @tbij.bsky.social. She is calling for an urgent review of all Melanie Gill's cases. 🧵 tinyurl.com/bp9smemn
has told @tbij.bsky.social. She is calling for an urgent review of all Melanie Gill's cases. 🧵 tinyurl.com/bp9smemn
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Even Reform’s client journalists in the right-wing London media can’t hide the party’s failure in Wales
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
October 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Even Reform’s client journalists in the right-wing London media can’t hide the party’s failure in Wales
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
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A court has requested a Latin interpreter for today's sentencing hearing
LATIN (AMERICAN) INTERPRETER REQUIRED
Luckily they added (American), and someone who speaks Spanish has turned up.
Otherwise the interpreter might have spent the day translating legal asides, but not much else
LATIN (AMERICAN) INTERPRETER REQUIRED
Luckily they added (American), and someone who speaks Spanish has turned up.
Otherwise the interpreter might have spent the day translating legal asides, but not much else
October 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
A court has requested a Latin interpreter for today's sentencing hearing
LATIN (AMERICAN) INTERPRETER REQUIRED
Luckily they added (American), and someone who speaks Spanish has turned up.
Otherwise the interpreter might have spent the day translating legal asides, but not much else
LATIN (AMERICAN) INTERPRETER REQUIRED
Luckily they added (American), and someone who speaks Spanish has turned up.
Otherwise the interpreter might have spent the day translating legal asides, but not much else
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NEW: A mother has won a landmark legal bid to overturn the evidence of a psychologist which led to her kids being removed. For the last 5yrs she has only seen them twice a month under strict supervision based on Melanie Gill's advice to a family judge. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4z2cm2m4
October 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
NEW: A mother has won a landmark legal bid to overturn the evidence of a psychologist which led to her kids being removed. For the last 5yrs she has only seen them twice a month under strict supervision based on Melanie Gill's advice to a family judge. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4z2cm2m4
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I really should start a thread of "things people in politics and the media have questionably blamed on hackers"
Outspoken TV host Mike Graham has vanished from his Talk TV show after a 'racist' Facebook post he insists was written by a hacker
Mike Graham vanishes from Talk TV after blaming racist Facebook post on 'hacker'
www.thenational.scot
October 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I really should start a thread of "things people in politics and the media have questionably blamed on hackers"
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We monitored an AI chatbot service popular with teens and found characters modelled on alt-right extremists, school shooters and even real people – including Jeffrey Epstein
Character AI has millions of users – and the app has been downloaded 2m+ times in the UK alone
Character AI has millions of users – and the app has been downloaded 2m+ times in the UK alone
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We monitored an AI chatbot service popular with teens and found characters modelled on alt-right extremists, school shooters and even real people – including Jeffrey Epstein
Character AI has millions of users – and the app has been downloaded 2m+ times in the UK alone
Character AI has millions of users – and the app has been downloaded 2m+ times in the UK alone
In the UK there's no punishment for employers who refuse to pay their workers, but @mattcole.bsky.social argues that we should follow the example of New Zealand and make non-payment of wages a criminal matter.
novaramedia.com/2025/10/16/employers-who-steal-wages-should-be-made-criminally-liable/
novaramedia.com/2025/10/16/employers-who-steal-wages-should-be-made-criminally-liable/
Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable | Novara Media
A shocking investigation has revealed that employers who fail to pay wages simply get away with it. It’s time to make wage theft a criminal matter, argues Matthew Cole.
novaramedia.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
In the UK there's no punishment for employers who refuse to pay their workers, but @mattcole.bsky.social argues that we should follow the example of New Zealand and make non-payment of wages a criminal matter.
novaramedia.com/2025/10/16/employers-who-steal-wages-should-be-made-criminally-liable/
novaramedia.com/2025/10/16/employers-who-steal-wages-should-be-made-criminally-liable/
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Excellent opportunity to hear from @nataliesedacca.bsky.social @ingathiemann.bsky.social and Tomoya Obokata @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social on Modern Slavery and Human Rights. Tuesday 28th October. Registration details 👇
Please join us for this webinar on 28 October, 1-2pm UK time, on 'Modern Slavery and Human Rights: Migrant Workers in the Agricultural and Care Sectors in the UK,' with Prof Tomoya Obokata, the current UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery since 2020
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Modern slavery and human rights: migrant workers in the agricultural and care sectors in the UK - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Excellent opportunity to hear from @nataliesedacca.bsky.social @ingathiemann.bsky.social and Tomoya Obokata @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social on Modern Slavery and Human Rights. Tuesday 28th October. Registration details 👇
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My report on a work dispute in South West London where hospital porters, cleaners and caterers claim they’ve been systematically excluded from the pay and conditions they are entitled to as NHS employees: www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
How hospital porters forced the NHS to the table
Staff of St Heliers and Epsom hospital have backed a strike and it seems they are now being heard
www.newstatesman.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
My report on a work dispute in South West London where hospital porters, cleaners and caterers claim they’ve been systematically excluded from the pay and conditions they are entitled to as NHS employees: www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...