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Employment

To boost the number of jobs and create a flexible labour market, the government is modernising employment law while protecting employee rights. To increase the number of people in employment, we need to support them into work through the benefits system and job search support.

Latest

  1. Local partnership opportunities with Jobcentre Plus

    • updated 11 March 2014
    • Guidance

  2. Shared parental leave and pay: draft legislation

    • updated 11 March 2014
    • Policy paper

  3. Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit right to reside test: workers and self-employed people

    • published 10 March 2014
    • Guidance
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Policies 4

  1. Helping employers make safer recruiting decisions

    How the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) provides criminal records checking and barring functions to help employers make safer recruitment decisions.

  2. Making the labour market more flexible, efficient and fair

    How the government is changing employment laws to encourage companies to hire staff while protecting employee rights.

  3. Simplifying the welfare system and making sure work pays

    Making the welfare system fairer, more affordable and better able to reduce poverty, worklessness and welfare dependency.

  4. Helping people to find and stay in work

    How the government is getting Britain working and helping people break the cycle of benefit dependency.

Announcements

  1. Vacancy: Regional Head of Human Resources at the British Embassy, Lisbon

    • 10 March 2014
    • News article

  2. Job Vacancy in Portugal

    • 10 March 2014
    • News article

  3. Work Programme – competitive market delivering constant improvement

    • 6 March 2014
    • Press release

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Consultations

  1. Early conciliation: proposals for implementation

    • 24 February 2014
    • Consultation outcome

  2. Zero hours employment contracts

    • 19 December 2013
    • Open consultation

  3. Collective redundancies: consultation on changes to the rules

    • 18 December 2013
    • Consultation outcome

See all consultations

Publications

  1. Local partnership opportunities with Jobcentre Plus

    • 11 March 2014
    • Guidance

  2. Shared parental leave and pay: draft legislation

    • 11 March 2014
    • Policy paper

  3. Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit right to reside test: workers and self-employed people

    • 10 March 2014
    • Guidance

See all publications

Statistics

  1. List of upcoming ad hoc statistical releases

    • 7 March 2014
    • Statistics

  2. Benefit cap: number of households capped to January 2014

    • 6 March 2014
    • Statistics

  3. Pre-release access to statistics: DWP arrangements

    • 6 March 2014
    • Statistics

See all statistics

Detailed guides

  1. European Works Council Directive

    The European Work Council Directive establishes a European legal procedure for the establishment of European Works Councils (EWCs). Read more

  2. National minimum wage: work experience and internships

    Guidance on the national minimum wage for organisations who offer work experience, including placements and internships. Read more

  3. Trade unions: guidance and codes of practice for the workplace

    Guidance and codes of practice for trade unions to follow in the workplace. Read more

  4. Criminal record checks: guidance for employers

    How employers or organisations can request criminal records checks on potential employees from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Read more

  5. E-bulk: submitting multiple applications for DBS checking

    Using the e-bulk system for making multiple applications to the Disclosure and Barring Service, including how to register. Read more

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