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What an employee needs to do when they resign from a job: how to give notice, notice period, payment arrangements, gardening leave, restrictive covenants
Employment rights and questions you can be asked about your disability - disability symbol, employment advisers and reasonable adjustments
Your Statutory Adoption Pay and Leave - what you get, how to claim and eligibility
Check your local council for advice on becoming a licensed chaperone for children in the entertainment, modelling or sports
Apply for an Overseas Domestic Worker visa if you've worked for your employer for at least a year - eligibility, fees, knowledge of English, your employment rights.
Grievances and disciplinary action at work can be solved by informal discussions, formal procedures, mediation, conciliation or arbitration.
Your insurance must cover you for at least £5 million - check authorised insurers and how you can be fined
You can receive an unlimited fine for employing an illegal worker - find out what happens and what you can do
Get information and advice on statutory redundancy pay in England, Scotland and Wales - telephone, opening hours
How employment contracts can be changed, problems with changes and breach of contract
Check if you’re paying a worker the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if you owe them payments for the previous year.
Use form SSP2 if you're an employer and need to record details of an employee's sickness absences for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP).
Employees can raise a grievance at work when an informal solution is not possible - grievance procedure, mediation, meetings, appeals
There is no law for a minimum or maximum temperature, but during working hours the temperature in all workplaces inside buildings must be reasonable
When employers move, employees with mobility clauses, what happens with redundancies, compensation, disputes and company takeovers
When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.
Employees' rights at work under fixed-term contracts - and what happens if a contract is renewed or ended.
You may need a child performance licence for any child taking part in a public performance, sporting event or modelling assignment
Find out about help you can get moving from benefits to work - training, work trials, starting your own business, help with drug or alcohol problems, carer support
Rights for interns and students in the workplace; work experience; work placements; rights to the National Minimum Wage.
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