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Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy
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.
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
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.
Travel disruption and work - employee rights, employer rights, paid and unpaid holiday entitlement, winter weather
Employer and employee guide to unpaid carer’s leave - who can take it, how long for, when can employers postpone or delay.
How to calculate your employee's Statutory Sick Pay if you cannot use the GOV.UK calculator.
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) calculator - calculate SSP for an employee
Find forms and guidance for Maternity, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave and pay.
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
Use this guidance if your payroll software or Basic PAYE tool does not calculate your employees' payments.
Find forms and guidance for Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave for employers and employees.
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