Guidance and regulation

Guidance on employment status for HR advisers, and to help individuals and businesses understand which employment rights apply to them.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 26 July 2022

• Employment status and employment rights: guidance for HR professionals, legal professionals and other groups

  Section 1: Guidance overview Employment status affects everyone who works.…

• Employment status and rights: support for individuals

  Your statutory employment rights at work - like the minimum amount you…

• Employment status and rights: checklist for employers and other engagers

  Employers have a variety of important responsibilities towards their…

List of prescribed people and bodies you can report malpractice to, other than your employer.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 29 December 2023

• Whistleblowing: list of prescribed people and bodies

  If you decide to blow the whistle to a prescribed person rather than your…

Guidance for hirers of agency workers and the recruitment sector to understand the new Agency Workers Regulations.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 2 others
• Updated: 3 October 2019

Guidance on producing a 'Key information document', or key facts page, for agency workers.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 2 others
• Updated: 3 October 2019

Background on National Occupational Standards (NOS).

• From: Closed organisation: UK Commission for Employment and Skills
• Updated: 24 April 2014

Guidance for employment agencies, employment businesses and the recruitment sector on the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 2 others
• Updated: 14 August 2020

Guidance on the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 - for employers, employees and representatives.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 15 January 2014

Guidance on picketing for employers, workers or members of the public who may be affected by a picket or any associated activities.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 11 March 2024

This is a technical guide for employers to consider when implementing policies on shared parental leave and pay.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 27 April 2020

This guidance offers support and advice to employers who may need to handle whistleblowing reports.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 20 March 2015

The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act amends the legal framework governing industrial action to enable Minimum Service Levels to be set in key sectors during periods of strike action.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 21 February 2023

Employers’ guide to the right for employees entitled to take unpaid time off work to accompany a pregnant woman to antenatal appointments.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 8 September 2014

Practical guidance to trade unions and employers to promote the improvement of industrial relations and good practice in the conduct of trade union industrial action ballots.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 24 February 2017

How trade unions can get recognition for collective bargaining from the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC).

• From: Central Arbitration Committee
• Updated: 23 October 2014

Guidance for trade unions on “reasonable steps” in relation to minimum service levels.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 6 December 2023

Charter to show employers about what they can do to deal with staff issues in the workplace. Aims to clarify employers rights, and change their…

• From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Updated: 15 March 2012

Guidance for employers, trade unions and workers on industrial action law.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 9 April 2010

Advice for prescribed persons on how to deal with whistleblowing disclosures.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 1 April 2017

Guidance for employers, trade unions and workers on issuing work notices in relation to minimum service levels during strike action.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 16 November 2023

Employment law gives employees basic protections against being penalised for being, or not being, members of a trade union.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 8 May 2006