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  • Includes types of worker, employee rights, overtime and changes to contracts

  • Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace

    • Overview

      In employment law a person’s employment status helps determine: their…

    • Worker

      A person is generally classed as a ‘worker’ if: they have a contract or…

    • Employee

      An employee is someone who works under an employment contract. A person…

    • Employee shareholders

      An employee shareholder is someone who works under an employment contract…

    • Self-employed and contractor

      A person is self-employed if they run their business for themselves and…

    • Director

      Company directors run limited companies on behalf of shareholders.…

    • Office holder

      A person who’s been appointed to a position by a company or organisation…

    • Legal decisions on employment status

      A court or employment tribunal (known as an industrial tribunal in…

  • A consultation seeking views on reforms to the working time regulations, holiday pay, and the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE).

  • 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 Insurance, what...

  • How employment contracts can be changed, problems with changes and breach of contract

  • Employment law and insolvency

  • A contract is an agreement between employee and employer setting out implied and explicit terms and conditions - written statement of particulars, collective agreements

  • Dismissal is when your employer ends your employment - reasons you can be dismissed, unfair and constructive dismissal and what to do if you're dismissed

  • Requesting flexible working, how to make an application, what business reasons an employer can give to reject an application and how to appeal.

  • 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

  • Workers right across the country will be given more say over their working patterns thanks to new laws supported by the Department for Business and Trade.

  • Discrimination policy and equal opportunities in recruitment and in the workplace - age discrimination, disabled workers, gender reassignment, sex discrimination

  • Lists the issues that the government is considering relating to the employment law review.

  • 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.

  • Minimum working age and pay for children, how to apply for performance licences and what local council bylaws say about employing children, paying someone over 16

  • Employee rights and employer legal obligations - the Information and Consultation of Employee regulations, setting up information and consultation agreements, complaints

  • Overtime law - what is overtime, overtime pay, employee rights, part-time workers and time off in lieu

  • Part-time workers should not be treated less favourably than full-time workers; employers' responsibilities and what part-time workers can do if they're treated unfairly

  • Taking time off work for public duties (for example as a magistrate, school governor or on jury service) - rights and responsibilities for employees and employers