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Find out about how and what you’ll be paid and how to check your pay when you’re employed by an umbrella company as a temporary worker.
Workers right across the country will be given more say over their working patterns thanks to new laws supported by the Department for Business and Trade.
Use the Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool to find out if you, or a worker on a specific engagement, should be classed as employed or self-employed for tax purposes.
Access and unfair practices during recognition and derecognition ballots
An explanation of how holiday entitlement and pay operate during the pandemic, where it differs from the standard holiday entitlement and pay guidance.
Union of General & Volunteer Workers trade union: annual returns, rules, statement to members, decisions and other related documents.
Independent Workers Union of Great Britain trade union: annual returns, rules, statement to members, decisions and other related documents.
Guidance for sponsors on sponsoring a Creative Worker.
List of organisations licensed to sponsor workers on the Worker and Temporary Worker immigration routes.
Apply for an Overseas Domestic Worker visa if you've worked for your employer for at least a year - eligibility, fees, knowledge of English, your employment rights
The rules for working on Sundays, opt in, opt out arrangements, rules for shop and betting shop workers
The Social Workers Union trade union: annual returns, rules, statement to members, decisions and other related documents.
Guidance for employers. You need to have a sponsor licence to hire workers from outside the UK.
Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes
Find out about agricultural workers' pay and working conditions, labour laws, and health and safety laws.
This paper estimates the effects of foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) on workers
Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination consent form and letter templates for healthcare workers.
Guidance for sponsors on applying for a licence.
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