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Your Statutory Adoption Pay and Leave - what you get, how to claim and eligibility
Employers guide to assessing fitness to work, including asking for medical evidence, fit notes, and dealing with long term or frequent absences.
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
What to do when paying maternity pay if an employee leaves, becomes sick, dies, or is awarded a pay rise.
Find out about different rules for entitlement that affect some employment types, including agency workers, directors and educational workers.
Travel disruption and work - employee rights, employer rights, paid and unpaid holiday entitlement, winter weather
Minister Hollinrake's statement and main findings from DBT’s review which considered if the statutory leave provision for employees does enough to support those trying to escape domestic abuse.
You can start Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) if you're eligible and you or your partner ends your maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, starting SPL and splitting blocks of leave
Employer and employee guide to unpaid carer’s leave - who can take it, how long for, when can employers postpone or delay.
Find forms and guidance for Maternity, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave and pay.
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) calculator - calculate SSP for an employee
How to calculate your employee's Statutory Sick Pay if you cannot use the GOV.UK calculator.
Your Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) - how much you get, eligibility, how to claim SSP, fit notes, disputes.
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace
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
Find forms and guidance for Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave for employers and employees.
What to do when an employee leaves, is reinstated, has a break in employment, works for someone else, is sick or goes abroad.
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