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Support from Jobcentre Plus if you're recruiting - including work trials, recruitment advice, Youth Contract and other employment schemes
Holiday calculator to work out statutory holiday leave in days or hours
Workers' rights to rest breaks at work - length of breaks, how your age affects rest breaks, exceptions to the rules for shift workers, young people, and drivers
Working time directive and maximum weekly working hours including how to calculate your weekly working hours and working time limits if you're a young worker.
New figures show DWP’s flagship jobs support programme for young people has now been taken up over a million times, as the Government continues its drive to get people working and grow the economy.
Career breaks - eligibility and notice periods, contract terms and conditions.
Guidance for advert-only departments on creating and publishing job adverts using the new VX Civil Service Jobs applicant tracking system.
Employees working for one employer without a break, employments rights for continuous services, breaks that do not affect continuous service
Guidance for local authorities in England who are considering adopting a 4-day working week.
DE&S employs hundreds of apprentices and graduates each year. Find out how we'll empower and support you to launch a successful career in defence.
Dstl employs some of the world's brightest people. We're always on the lookout for talented, creative, dedicated and innovative individuals to join us.
How to claim Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave: what you can get, check if you're eligible and how to claim it.
How organisations that employ newly qualified child and family social workers can take part in the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) programme.
Find out about help you can get moving from benefits to work - work trials, programmes and clubs, New Enterprise Allowance, help with drug or alcohol problems, carer support
Apply for a Skilled Worker visa (formerly a Tier 2 General work visa) if you’ve been offered a skilled job with a UK employer - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children, taking on additional...
Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Careers Wales provides independent and impartial careers information, advice and guidance service for Wales. Careers Wales works with the Welsh Government .
Employer and employee guide to unpaid carer’s leave - who can take it, how long for, when can employers postpone or delay.
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