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What an employee needs to do when they resign from a job: how to give notice, notice period, payment arrangements, gardening leave, restrictive covenants
If you want to leave your job, check your employment contract to find out…
You must give at least a week’s notice if you’ve been in your job for more…
You’re entitled to your normal pay rate during your notice period,…
Your employer may ask you not to come into work, or to work at home or…
There may be terms in your contract that says you can’t work for a…
Understand and avoid all types of anti-competitive and cartel activity including price-fixing, collusion, bid-ridding and sharing markets. Know how to report concerns to the CMA.
All businesses, whatever their size, must understand how they’re affected…
You must avoid all types of anti-competitive activity in your business…
The people who run your business are responsible for ensuring it does not…
The way you report anti-competitive activity depends on the type of…
Reviews the latest international data benchmarking UK economic performance against its major competitors. BIS economics paper number 19.
Examines the performance of the UK manufacturing sector, illustrating how it compares with main competitors. BIS economics paper number 10B.
The CMA has provisionally found that YPO’s anticipated purchase of close competitor Findel could leave schools worse off.
The CMA has found that JD Sports’ takeover of close competitor Footasylum could be bad for shoppers.
Your chances of obtaining a useful patent are significantly greater if you use an attorney. A patent specification is a legal document and requires specialist skills to draft properly.
The CMA has blocked JD Sports’ purchase of close competitor Footasylum after finding it would leave shoppers worse off.
The CMA has found that woollen yarn producer Danspin’s purchase of competitor Lawton Yarns poses serious competition concerns for carpet manufacturers in the UK.
If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
Find out the basic rules of VAT, how they apply to clubs and associations, and how to treat VAT on subscriptions and other payments.
The CMA has provisionally found that JD Sports’ takeover of close competitor Footasylum could leave shoppers worse off, both in-store and online.
Apple and Google “hold all the cards” with interventions needed to give innovators and competitors a fair chance to compete in mobile ecosystems
Find out what trade barriers are and how they may affect you when exporting goods or services.
Intellectual property can be bought, sold or licensed.
Summary of the Green Agreements Guidance to help businesses understand how competition law applies to environmental sustainability agreements.
Information on how to confess a cartel, the CMA’s leniency programme and what to expect if the cartel activity was in Scotland.
Guidance on the requirement for Chief Officers (or former Chief Officers) to provide notification of their post-service employment within 12 months of them leaving the police service.
Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments
The Bank Referral Scheme helps SMEs access finance and competition in the SME lending market.
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