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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
Use these rates and thresholds when you operate your payroll or provide expenses and benefits to your employees.
How employment contracts can be changed, problems with changes and breach of contract
Employers guide to assessing fitness to work, including asking for medical evidence, fit notes, and dealing with long term or frequent absences.
How to protect your employment business, and the workers you supply, from non-compliant businesses in your supply chain.
Find out about our Supply Chain Discount Guarantee: its benefits, eligibility criteria and how to apply.
How to account for VAT on goods and services provided by registered health professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
Strikes and industrial action - rights and responsibilities for employers, when unions can take action and the effect on employees' pay and working records
Find out about different rules for entitlement that affect some employment types, including agency workers, directors and educational workers.
This is advice for UK sponsors of workers and temporary workers affected by coronavirus (COVID-19).
Find out about tax avoidance schemes used by some businesses to provide tax free or tax reduced rewards to their employees.
As an agency worker, you have certain rights when using temp, recruitment agencies or employment agencies to find work - pay, holidays, equal treatment, fees.
Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy
How schools can get value for money, avoid fees and find local agencies who complete thorough background and safeguarding checks.
Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation
Why you need a guarantee and how to work out how much guarantee you need to cover your movements.
This guidance is on a Union making an application to be recognised for collective bargaining
Find out what employment types have different rules for entitlement to Statutory Paternity Pay.
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