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Holiday calculator to work out statutory holiday leave in days or hours
Your Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) - how much you get, eligibility, how to claim SSP, fit notes, disputes.
You can get up to £123.25 per week Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) if you’re too…
If you’re eligible, you can get £123.25 a week Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) or…
To qualify for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) you must: be classed as an…
To claim Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), tell your employer by the deadline.…
Fit notes (formerly sick notes), holiday during sick leave, returning to work, long-term sick, dismissals
Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes.
Maternity or Paternity Leave or Pay, or Maternity Allowance for parents
Maternity Allowance is paid to pregnant women who do not get Statutory Maternity Pay - rate, eligibility, apply, form MA1
Your legal right to time off to care for dependants - when you can take time off, how long you get, your rights
Employer and employee guide to unpaid parental leave - eligibility, how much leave can be taken and notice periods, postponing leave
Your Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - what you get, how to claim, maternity rights and extra help
Your Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave - eligibility, what you get, how to claim.
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…
Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal care or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy.
Use form SSP2 if you're an employer and need to record details of an employee's sickness absences for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP).
Your Statutory Adoption Pay and Leave - what you get, how to claim and eligibility
Agricultural Sick Pay means you're paid wages while you're sick - can you get it, how to claim, what you'll get.
Career breaks - eligibility and notice periods, contract terms and conditions.
Your rights to request time off for training or study while in a job
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
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
Work out how much statutory holiday leave you’re entitled to as an agricultural worker
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