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Holidays, time off, sick leave, maternity and paternity leave

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• Adoption pay and leave
• Agricultural Sick Pay
• Appeal a call up to the reserve forces
• Calculate your agricultural worker holiday entitlement
• Career breaks
• Check if you can get leave or pay when you have a child
• Employee rights when on leave
• Holiday entitlement
• Maternity Allowance
• Maternity pay and leave
• Paternity pay and leave
• Shared Parental Leave and Pay
• Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
• Suspensions from work for medical reasons
• Taking sick leave
• Time off for family and dependants
• Time off work for public duties
• Training and study at work: your rights
• Travel disruption and work
• UK bank holidays
• Unpaid parental leave

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• Armed forces

  Includes reserve forces and armed forces pensions, benefits and financial assistance.

• Finding a job

  Job search, Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), volunteering, apprenticeships and job offers

• Holidays, time off, sick leave, maternity and paternity leave

  Includes career breaks and the holiday entitlement calculator

• Redundancies, dismissals and disciplinaries

  Includes solving a workplace dispute, calculating redundancy pay and dismissal

• State Pension

  Calculating State Pension, Pension Credit, eligibility, claiming and deferring

• Workplace and personal pensions

  Includes automatic enrolment, lost pensions and planning for retirement

• Your contract and working hours

  Includes employment status, workers' rights and changes to contracts

• Your pay, tax and the National Minimum Wage

  Includes National Minimum Wage rates, keeping pay records and pay rights

• Your rights at work and trade unions

  Includes health and safety, accidents at work and joining a trade union

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