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Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
Accommodation provided by an employer can affect the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage: offset rates, accommodation charges.
Find out about help you can get moving from benefits to work - training, work trials, starting your own business, help with drug or alcohol problems, carer support
Personal data an employer can keep about an employee, and employee rights to see this information under data protection rules
Support from Jobcentre Plus if you're recruiting - including work trials, recruitment advice, Youth Contract and other employment schemes
How to dismiss staff fairly, working within dismissal rules and dealing with dismissals relating to whistleblowing.
Agricultural Sick Pay means you're paid wages while you're sick - can you get it, how to claim, what you'll get.
Where you can work, your rights, healthcare, tax and National Insurance payments.
Career breaks - eligibility and notice periods, contract terms and conditions.
Your pay - your payslip, performance-related pay, deductions and how to work out your weekly pay
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.
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
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
Register your details to receive alerts about career opportunities in international organisations (like the United Nations or European institutions).
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
Check if you’ll pay tax or National Insurance on the 'termination payment' you may get when leaving a job.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing vouchers to employees
Your rights to request time off for training or study while in a job
The employment status of au pairs, nannies, carers, personal assistants and other people who work in your home - how to tell if they're an employee or not, what happens with the National Minimum Wage, tax and National In…
How employers must handle written and verbal staff resignations, business transfers and redundancy pay
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