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The National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates: age, apprentices, previous years.
Holiday calculator to work out statutory holiday leave in days or hours
Calculate how much statutory redundancy you can get based on age, weekly pay and number of years in the job
Choosing a legal structure when you're starting a business: the differences between being a sole trader and a limited company, including legal risk, registration and taxes.
Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes
Search the Individual Insolvency Register for details about bankruptcy orders, Debt Relief Orders, Individual Voluntary Arrangements, and restrictions orders and undertakings
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
Get a new energy certificate for your property: energy performance certificate (EPC), display energy certificate (DEC) or air conditioning inspection certificate. Find an assessor to get a certificate.
Maternity or Paternity Leave or Pay, or Maternity Allowance for parents
The Warm Home Discount Scheme could take £150 off your winter electricity bill - eligibility, how to get your discount, deadlines.
Loans and mentoring for people looking to start or grow a business in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
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.
Being made redundant - rights, statutory payments you're entitled to, notice periods and consultation, finding a job.
You could get a grant to install a heat pump or biomass boiler. Find out if you’re eligible and how to apply.
Minimum working age and pay for children, how to apply for performance licences and what local council bylaws say about employing children, paying someone over 16
Check if your pay matches the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if your employer owes you payments from the previous year.
You can start Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) if you're eligible and you or your partner ends your maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, starting SPL and split…
Employer guide to Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - rates, eligibility, notice period, form SMP1, recover statutory pay
Requesting flexible working, how to make an application, what business reasons an employer can give to reject an application and how to appeal.
Green Deal home and business energy-saving improvements - assessments, repayments, Home Improvement Fund scheme
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