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Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
Agricultural Sick Pay means you're paid wages while you're sick - can you get it, how to claim, what you'll get.
Your pay - your payslip, performance-related pay, deductions and how to work out your weekly pay
Where you can work, your rights, healthcare, tax and National Insurance payments.
Personal data an employer can keep about an employee, and employee rights to see this information under data protection rules
Disciplinary procedures your employer has at work - disciplinary hearings, appeals, suspension, dismissal and help and advice
Employers might monitor workers, but if the monitoring involves taking data, images or drug testing they have to do this in a way that's legal and fair
Guidance for people of State Pension age living outside the UK who have been asked to return a Life Certificate.
Career breaks - eligibility and notice periods, contract terms and conditions.
The employment status of au pairs, nannies, carers, personal assistants and other people who work in your home - how to tell if they're an employee or not, what happens with the National Minimum Wage, tax and National In…
Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments
How to dismiss staff fairly, working within dismissal rules and dealing with dismissals relating to whistleblowing.
Appeal a mistake on a criminal record check certificate or appeal a decision on DBS's list of people who are barred from certain roles
Work out how much statutory holiday leave you’re entitled to as an agricultural worker
How employers must handle written and verbal staff resignations, business transfers and redundancy pay
Your rights to request time off for training or study while in a job
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing vouchers to employees
As an agency worker, you have certain rights when using temp, recruitment agencies or employment agencies to find work - pay, holidays, equal treatment, fees.
An employer can suspend an employee from work if their health and safety is in danger - employee right to pay, alternative work and how to handle problems
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