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Strikes and industrial action - rights and responsibilities for employers, when unions can take action and the effect on employees' pay and working records
If there’s a workplace dispute at your business, you should try to resolve…
Trade unions only have statutory immunity if the industrial action is…
You can ask your employees if they’re planning to strike, so that you can…
During the strike, workers and union reps may stand outside the place of…
You can ask non-union employees to cover work during a strike, as long as:…
How legal industrial action is organised, picketing and the law and what your employment rights when you are on strike
Industrial action is when workers: go on strike take other action, like…
Your union must have a vote (a ‘ballot’) that’s properly organised…
You have the right to take industrial action and you cannot be legally…
A picket line is where workers and union reps (‘picketers’ or ‘pickets’)…
If your business pays the cost of an employee's mobile phone - what you must report to HMRC and what taxes and National Insurance are due.
As an employer providing mobile phones to your employees, you have certain…
You do not have to report anything to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) or…
If telephone expenses are not exempt, you must report them to HM Revenue…
The value to use for reporting or paying tax and National Insurance…
You can read more detailed information in particular benefits: mobile…
How to minimise your risk, and what to do if there's a terrorist attack.
FCDO travel advice for Belgium. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Emergency alerts are broadcast from mobile phone masts. Find out if your phone or tablet can receive alerts.
Your mobile phone or tablet may get an emergency alert if there’s a danger to life nearby. Alerts will tell you what you need to do to stay safe.
FCDO travel advice for Colombia. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
FCDO travel advice for Ukraine. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
UK Senior Military Advisor, Lt Col Joby Rimmer, highlights Russia’s continued and deliberate disinformation in the OSCE. Russia’s failure to honour even limited de-escalatory opportunities reveal a broader unwillingness to choose diplomacy over destruction.
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