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• Updated: 31 May 2024

If your employer is 'insolvent' this means it cannot pay its debts - your rights if this happens, claiming money owed to you, where to get advice

• Overview

  Your employer is insolvent if it cannot pay its debts. They might: make…

• Your rights

  You have different rights depending on whether your employer: makes you…

• What you can get

  What money you’re entitled to depends on: how long you were employed what…

• Apply for money you're owed

  You’re eligible to apply if: you were an employee you’re a UK or EEA…

• After you apply

  It usually takes up to 6 weeks to get your payment but can take longer.…

When and how you can ask for your visa decision to be reviewed (known as an 'administrative review') - eligibility, forms and when to appeal instead

• If you're outside the UK

  You’ll be told in your decision letter if you can ask for the decision on…

• If you're in the UK

  You’ll be told in your decision letter if you can ask for the decision on…

• If your visa was cancelled at the border

  You’ll be told in your decision letter if you can ask for the decision to…

Includes maternity and paternity leave, holiday entitlement and sick pay

• Updated: 8 April 2026

• Updated: 17 August 2023

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

• Updated: 5 March 2026

• Updated: 12 May 2026

Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments

Employer guide to Statutory Paternity Pay or Leave - entitlement, eligibility, notice period, forms SC3 and SPP1, recover statutory pay.