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You may need a child performance licence for any child taking part in a public performance, sporting event or modelling assignment
Employees' rights at work under fixed-term contracts - and what happens if a contract is renewed or ended.
Check your local council for advice on becoming a licensed chaperone for children in the entertainment, modelling or sports
The rules for working on Sundays, opt in, opt out arrangements, rules for shop and betting shop workers
Use form SSP2 if you're an employer and need to record details of an employee's sickness absences for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP).
Where you can work, your rights, healthcare, tax and National Insurance 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
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
How to dismiss staff fairly, working within dismissal rules and dealing with dismissals relating to whistleblowing
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
Agricultural Sick Pay means you're paid wages while you're sick - can you get it, how to claim, what you'll get
Check if you’ll pay tax or National Insurance on the 'termination payment' you may get when leaving a job.
Where possible, you should make barring referrals using the online Barring Referral Service. If you need to make your referral by paper, guidance and forms are below.
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…
Discrimination policy and equal opportunities in recruitment and in the workplace - age discrimination, disabled workers, gender reassignment, sex discrimination
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.
Guidance for people of State Pension age living outside the UK who have been asked to return a Life Certificate.
As an agency worker, you have certain rights when using temp, recruitment agencies or employment agencies to find work - pay, holidays, equal treatment, fees.
Career breaks - eligibility and notice periods, contract terms and conditions.
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