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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Check if you’re the deemed employer and what your responsibilities are if the off-payroll working rules (IR35) apply.
Use this list to check if you can claim a fixed amount of tax relief (also known as 'flat rate expenses') for your work expenses if you're an employee.
Guidance for sponsors on sponsor duties and compliance.
The rules on working hours - hour and limits, rests, health assessments and terms and conditions
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.
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...
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
The type of seasonal work you can do on farms, who can apply, and where you can find work.
As an agency worker, you have certain rights when using temp, recruitment agencies or employment agencies to find work - pay, holidays, equal treatment, fees.
How legal industrial action is organised, picketing and the law and what your employment rights when you are on strike
Advice for people returning to the UK after working in an Ebola or Marburg virus affected area.
Apply for a Secondment Worker visa to work for a UK organisation as part of a high-value contract - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
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
Working effectively with trade unions; collective bargaining and agreements, informing and consulting, union subs, the check off, political funds, union reps
This guide provides information on statutory derecognition of a trade union
Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki at the UN Security Council meeting on humanitarian personnel.
Workers' disclosures received by the Homes and Community Agency in its capacity as regulator of social housing.
Use the Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool to find out if you, or a worker on a specific engagement, should be classed as employed or self-employed for tax purposes.
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