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Information for students to help work out what academic year their course falls under.

• Updated: 4 February 2025

A table of rehabilitation periods for the most common sentences and disposals, and example scenarios.

• Updated: 28 October 2023

Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes

• Entitlement

  Almost all people classed as workers are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks’…

• Calculate leave entitlement

  For regular-hours workers, employers can use a ‘leave year’ or an…

• Holiday pay

  Workers are entitled to a week’s pay for each week of statutory leave that…

• Booking time off

  The general notice period for taking leave is at least twice as long as…

• Taking holiday before leaving a job

  During their notice period the worker may be able to take whatever is left…

Find out what steps you need to take before you calculate how much you can claim for furloughed and flexibly furloughed employees.

• Updated: 29 October 2021

Apply for indefinite leave to remain ('settlement') if you have a Scale-up Worker visa - fees, who's eligible, how to apply.

Check what you need to do to employ teachers who are non-UK citizens.

• Updated: 22 September 2025

Your company's financial year can run for more or less than 12 months - find out how to change it

Apply for indefinite leave to remain ('settlement') if you have a business, investor or talent visa - fees, who's eligible, how to apply.

The range of prison sentences a court can give - including suspended, fixed-term, indeterminate and life sentences.

Apply for a Senior or Specialist Worker visa to work for your employer’s UK branch - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.