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As an agency worker, you have certain rights when using temp, recruitment agencies or employment agencies to find work - pay, holidays, equal treatment, fees.
Guidance for sponsors on sponsor duties and compliance.
Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
Check if you’re the deemed employer and what your responsibilities are if the off-payroll working rules (IR35) apply.
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
Government rewards hard work with record tax cut to National Insurance for 29 million workers
Union Workers’ Union trade union: annual returns, rules, statement to members, decisions and other related documents.
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
Apply for a Skilled Worker visa (formerly a Tier 2 General work visa) if you’ve been offered a skilled job with a UK employer - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children, taking on additional...
Find out about different rules for entitlement that affect some employment types, including agency workers, directors and educational workers.
The type of seasonal work you can do on farms, who can apply, and where you can find work.
How legal industrial action is organised, picketing and the law and what your employment rights when you are on strike
Get help and advice on employment rights - telephone, opening hours, website
Advice for people returning to the UK after working in an Ebola or Marburg virus affected area.
The rules for employment agencies and businesses: licences, vulnerable people, opting out, job advertisements, transfer fees, trade unions, terms and conditions and contracts, travel and accommodation for work-seekers
This guide provides information on statutory derecognition of a trade union
Working effectively with trade unions; collective bargaining and agreements, informing and consulting, union subs, the check off, political funds, union reps
Rights for interns and students in the workplace; work experience; work placements; rights to the National Minimum Wage.
Workers' disclosures received by the Homes and Community Agency in its capacity as regulator of social housing.
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