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Get help and advice on employment rights - telephone, opening hours, website
Workers' rights to rest breaks at work - length of breaks, how your age affects rest breaks, exceptions to the rules for shift workers, young people, and drivers
Who's entitled to the minimum wage, what's included when working out the minimum wage, and what happens if there's a dispute.
Find out what to do if, as an employer, you cease trading, become insolvent, take over an existing business or make employees redundant when paying Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay.
This guidance is for company directors who are claiming redundancy related payments from the Insolvency Service.
Becoming an apprentice - what to expect, apprenticeship levels, pay and training, making an application, complaining about an apprenticeship.
Whistleblowing - what it is, who to tell, what to expect and how to complain if you're treated unfairly
Form N322B: Application for an order to allow enforcement of a decision or an ACAS settlement (Form COT3) that does not require permission to proceed.
Guidance about signing up for the Disability Confident scheme, and how it can help your business.
RA withdrawn, contents incorporated into another RA as detailed within the document.
Guidance on when seafarers and other persons who work at sea are entitled to the minimum wage.
What to do if an employer ceases, becomes insolvent, takes over an existing business, or makes employees redundant whilst paying sick pay.
If you have long COVID there is a range of support available.
This series brings together all documents relating to the Workplace Employment Relations Study (WERS).
Getting a work reference from an employer either while in work or when applying for a new job – and what you can do if you think it's unfair.
How trade unions can complain to the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) when an employer has failed to disclose information for collective bargaining.
Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.
Grievances and disciplinary action at work can be solved by informal discussions, formal procedures, mediation, conciliation or arbitration.
What to do if an employer ceases, becomes insolvent, takes over an existing business or makes employees redundant when paying paternity pay.
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