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Check how quickly you’ll receive a decision on your UK visa application if you are applying from outside the UK.
Taking time off work for public duties (for example as a magistrate, school governor or on jury service) - rights and responsibilities for employees and employers
Your legal right to time off to care for dependants - when you can take time off, how long you get, your rights
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Check how quickly you’ll receive a decision on your UK visa application if you're applying from inside the UK.
You can be prosecuted if your child has unauthorised absence from school - truancy, help with getting your child to school, and legal action to enforce school attendance
Responding to suspected breaches of planning control.
An explanation of how holiday entitlement and pay operate during the pandemic, where it differs from the standard holiday entitlement and pay guidance.
Getting a faster decision on a visa or settlement application; priority service, super priority service; waiting times; how to check if you're eligible
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
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
How to use an interrupted time series to evaluate your digital health product.
Your rights to request time off for training or study while in a job
Fit notes (formerly sick notes), holiday during sick leave, returning to work, long-term sick, dismissals
An overview of the process by which bills become law.
The penalties if you are caught taking or dealing drugs - drug classification, fines and prison sentences
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
Local plan examinations and the planning issues they deal with can be complex. This is intended as a short guide for those who might be participating in a local plan examination for the first time. It does not aim to...
Information about how headteachers, or someone with delegated authority, can reschedule the key stage 2 (KS2) tests.
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