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Your rights to request time off for training or study while in a job
Staff may have the right to ask for time off work for training or study.…
Employees should follow their organisation’s rules to ask for time off. If…
The employer has 28 days to: accept the request hold a meeting with the…
Employees have the right to appeal if their employer refuses a request to…
Requesting flexible working, how to make an application, what business reasons an employer can give to reject an application and how to appeal.
Flexible working is a way of working that suits an employee’s needs, for…
There are different ways of working flexibly. Job sharing Two people do…
Employees can apply for flexible working from their first day in a job.…
Employers must consider flexible working requests in a ‘reasonable…
Employees no longer have a statutory right to an appeal but may still be…
General Conditions and Annexes.
College-specific brief template and annexes.
Workplace pensions - your employer's responsibilities to you to provide a workplace pension and what automatic enrolment means to you
Employer's responsibilities during the process of union recognition.
Further education generic design brief and technical annexes.
Generic design brief and technical annexes.
Information about employing an apprentice and how apprenticeship funding works.
Workplace pensions - what employers have to do, automatic enrolment, ongoing duties, stakeholder pensions
Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
Use these procedures if you’re an employer or an employee and need to report end-of-year expenses and benefits.
Employees' rights at work under fixed-term contracts - and what happens if a contract is renewed or ended
Find out what the reporting requirements are for an employer reimbursing or paying an employee’s non-exempt travel expenses.
What qualifies as ordinary commuting and private travel for tax purposes.
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
A contract is an agreement between employee and employer setting out implied and explicit terms and conditions - written statement of particulars, collective agreements
Discrimination policy and equal opportunities in recruitment and in the workplace - age discrimination, disabled workers, gender reassignment, sex discrimination
Apply to set up an arrangement with your employer to be kept informed and to be consulted
When employers move, employees with mobility clauses, what happens with redundancies, compensation, disputes and company takeovers
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