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What an employee needs to do when they resign from a job: how to give notice, notice period, payment arrangements, gardening leave, restrictive covenants
If you want to leave your job, check your employment contract to find out…
You must give at least a week’s notice if you’ve been in your job for more…
You’ll usually get your normal pay rate during your notice period. If…
Your employer may ask you not to come into work, or to work at home or…
There may be terms in your contract that says you cannot work for a…
This guide covers what happens when your landlord gives you notice before 1 May 2026 to leave your home and the court and evictions process if you do not leave.
Guidance for inspectors on how to decide when to inspect or visit without notice.
Find out which supplies of children’s clothing or footwear are zero-rated for VAT.
Employer guide to Statutory Neonatal Care Pay and Leave: eligibility, notice period, record keeping, getting help.
This guide explains the process a landlord must take when they served an eviction notice before 1 May 2026.
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Mitchell on 23 September 2026.
Employer guide to Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave - entitlement, eligibility, notice period, non-payment form, recover statutory pay.
Find out how to apply VAT to charges for postage, delivery services and how to treat direct marketing services involving distribution of printed matter.
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