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Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Your rights to request time off for training or study while in a job
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
Employers might monitor workers, but if the monitoring involves taking data, images or drug testing they have to do this in a way that's legal and fair
How to make debt deductions from an employee's pay because of an 'attachment of earnings order' (AEO) from a court. Includes information from the withdrawn A/E guidance.
If there is a mistake on your DBS certificate, the forms and guidance explain what you need to do.
Career breaks - eligibility and notice periods, contract terms and conditions.
An employer can suspend an employee from work if their health and safety is in danger - employee right to pay, alternative work and how to handle problems
Work out how much statutory holiday leave you’re entitled to as an agricultural worker
Set up a Payroll Giving scheme for your employees using PAYE - when to make deductions, costs of running the scheme, which charities are eligible and what they must do when they get the donation
Appeal a mistake on a criminal record check certificate or appeal a decision on DBS's list of people who are barred from certain roles
For additional information you cannot fit on your Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) application form.
How employers must handle written and verbal staff resignations, business transfers and redundancy pay
Compensation Recovery Unit forms for use by compensators (eg insurers) and their representatives (eg solicitors).
Run payroll for married women or widowers paying less National Insurance, forms CA4139, CF383, CF380A, use NI category letter B or E, when to stop deducting the reduced rate
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing vouchers to employees
Check if you’ll pay tax or National Insurance on the 'termination payment' you may get when leaving a job.
Check if you’re paying a worker the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if you owe them payments for the previous year.
Discrimination policy and equal opportunities in recruitment and in the workplace - age discrimination, disabled workers, gender reassignment, sex discrimination
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
Avoiding discrimination against disabled people in recruitment – advertising the job, encouraging applications, reasonable adjustments
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