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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
Your employer can ask you to stay at home or take unpaid leave if there’s…
Rate and length of statutory lay-off pay You’re entitled to guarantee pay…
You could apply for redundancy and claim redundancy pay if you’ve been…
You can take on another job while you’re laid off or on short-time (unless…
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Redundancy is when you dismiss an employee because you no longer need…
You should take steps to avoid compulsory redundancies, for example by:…
You can lay off an employee (ask them to stay at home or take unpaid…
Voluntary redundancy This is where you ask employees if they’d like to…
If you decide you need to make compulsory redundancies, you must: identify…
If you do not consult employees in a redundancy situation, any…
You must give staff notice and agree a leaving date once you’ve finished…
Employees you make redundant might be entitled to redundancy pay - this is…
If you make staff redundant, you may give them a ‘termination payment’.…
If you have to make redundancies, Jobcentre Plus can give you and your…
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
How the MHRA makes decisions on when a product is a medical device (borderline products), and which risk class should apply to a medical device.
Documents relating to the independent review led by Sir Oliver Letwin.
The government introduced a number of measures through the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 to incentivise the prompt build-out of housing sites. This update outlines recent progress in the implementation of these measures and next steps.
Decommissioning programmes, including dates, locations, installations decommissioned, method of decommissioning and close-out reports where available.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document B including 2020 and 2022 amendments.
These terms and conditions set out the requirements of membership of the Secretary of State for Transport’s Honorary Medical Advisory Panels.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Guidance on activities that may require a marine licence.
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
Use the case studies to help you decide when your goods may (or may not) go beyond insufficient production.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Supports effective delivery of planning application process.
Information on UK sanctions currently in place and how to apply for the appropriate licences.
This guidance sets out the standards for those that serve on the boards of public bodies, and how they can best support effective working relationships with departments.
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