Your rights at work and trade unions

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Workplace temperatures

There is no law for a minimum or maximum temperature, but during working hours the temperature in all workplaces inside buildings must be reasonable
Pregnant employees' rights

Legal rights for pregnant employees - including paid time off for antenatal appointments, maternity leave and pay, protection against discrimination and telling the employer about the pregnancy.
Working after State Pension age

Working while taking your pension, State Pension age, retirement age, how long you can work, tax and national insurance, flexible working, discrimination
Reasonable adjustments for workers with disabilities or health conditions

Employers must make reasonable adjustments to make sure workers with disabilities or health conditions are not substantially disadvantaged
Discrimination: your rights

It is against the law to discriminate against anyone because of their sex, religion, disability or certain other personal characteristics ('protected characteristics')

Working time rules: lorry, bus and coach drivers and crew
- Guidance
- 9 July 2025
- Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
Participating in a European Works Council
- Detailed guide
- 31 December 2020
- Department for Business and Trade and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

New action to tackle unpaid internships as Government seeks to protect younger workers
- 17 July 2025
- Department for Business and Trade
- Press release
Employment Rights Bill to increase bereavement leave for families who face pregnancy loss
- 7 July 2025
- Department for Business and Trade and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Press release
Roadmap unveiled to boost rights for half of all UK workers and provide certainty to employers
- 1 July 2025
- Department for Business and Trade and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Press release
Neonatal care leave and pay right for thousands of new parents
- 5 April 2025
- Department for Business and Trade
- Press release
Payslip boost for millions as new minimum wage rates take effect
- 1 April 2025
- Department for Business and Trade and HM Treasury
- Press release

A Review of the Youth Rates of the National Minimum Wage
- 4 November 2019
- Low Pay Commission
- Research
20 years of the National Minimum Wage
- 1 April 2019
- Low Pay Commission
- Research
Low Pay Commission research: 'one-sided flexibility' report December 2018
- 22 January 2019
- Low Pay Commission
- Research
Low Pay Commission Response to the Government on 'one-sided flexibility'
- 17 December 2018
- Low Pay Commission
- Research
BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: Wave 27
- 8 November 2018
- Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Official statistics

Making flexible working the default
- 5 December 2022
- Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 01 December 2021
Good work plan: establishing a new single enforcement body for employment rights
- 8 June 2021
- Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 06 October 2019
Minimum service levels and the use of agency workers during strike action
- 6 August 2024
- Department for Business and Trade
- Policy paper
Call for evidence: non-statutory flexible working
- 20 July 2023
- Department for Business and Trade
- Closed call for evidence
Protecting and enhancing worker rights after the UK withdrawal from the European Union
- 6 March 2019
- Department for Business and Trade and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Policy paper

Official list of trade unions
- 14 October 2014
- Certification Officer
- Corporate report