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• Updated: 25 March 2025

How a product complies with EU safety, health and environmental requirements, and how to place a CE marking on your product.

• Updated: 17 May 2024

Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay

• Overview

  Redundancy is when you dismiss an employee because you no longer need…

• Avoiding redundancies

  You should take steps to avoid compulsory redundancies, for example by:…

• Lay-offs and short-time working

  You can lay off an employee (ask them to stay at home or take unpaid…

• Non-compulsory redundancy

  Voluntary redundancy This is where you ask employees if they’d like to…

• Compulsory redundancy

  If you decide you need to make compulsory redundancies, you must: identify…

• Redundancy consultations

  If you do not consult employees in a redundancy situation, any…

• Giving staff notice

  You must give staff notice and agree a leaving date once you’ve finished…

• Redundancy pay

  Employees you make redundant might be entitled to redundancy pay - this is…

• Tax when making staff redundant

  If you make staff redundant, you may give them a ‘termination payment’.…

• Getting help

  If you have to make redundancies, Jobcentre Plus can give you and your…

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

Apply for a UK Ancestry visa if you're a Commonwealth citizen and can prove that one of your grandparents was born in the UK - eligibility, fees, documents, how to apply, how long it takes and how to settle

An explanation of how holiday entitlement and pay operate during the pandemic, where it differs from the standard holiday entitlement and pay guidance.

• Updated: 13 May 2020

Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy

• Updated: 30 August 2023

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

Employer and employee guide to unpaid carer’s leave - who can take it, how long for, when can employers postpone or delay.