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Understand and avoid all types of anti-competitive and cartel activity including price-fixing, collusion, bid-ridding and sharing markets. Know how to report concerns to the CMA.

• Overview

  All businesses, whatever their size, must understand how they’re affected…

• Types of anti-competitive activity

  You must avoid all types of anti-competitive activity in your business…

• Manage risk

  The people who run your business are responsible for ensuring it does not…

• Report anti-competitive activity

  The way you report anti-competitive activity depends on the type of…

Workers' rights to rest breaks at work - length of breaks, how your age affects rest breaks, exceptions to the rules for shift workers, young people, and drivers

• Overview

  Workers over 18 are usually entitled to 3 types of break - rest breaks at…

• Taking breaks

  Employers can say when employees take rest breaks during work time as long…

• Compensatory rest

  Workers may be entitled to ‘compensatory rest’ if they don’t have the…

• Exceptions

  Workers aren’t entitled to the 3 general types of rest break if they work…

• Young workers

  Young workers (above school leaving age and under 18) are usually entitled…

• Disputes

  Workers who can’t take or aren’t allowed rest breaks should speak to their…

Probation is when you serve a court sentence in the community, and can include unpaid work or being supervised after coming out of prison

• Overview

  Probation means you’re serving your sentence but you’re not in prison. You…

• Meetings with your offender manager

  When you’re on probation you may have meetings with your offender manager.…

• If you break the rules of your probation

  You could go back to court if you break any rules of your probation. For…

• Being taken back to prison

  You can be taken straight back to prison if you have been released on…

• Ask to be released again on probation

  If you have been taken back to prison and think you should be released on…

How to show the MHRA you're meeting good clinical practice (GCP) standards and what to expect from an inspection.

• Updated: 13 March 2025

Disciplinary rules and procedures to deal with poor performance and conduct.

Employment agencies and businesses must keep proper records and can be inspected by the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate; the records you must keep, how long to store them and what happens if you're inspected

EU and GB domestic rules for drivers of goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles

The rules, paperwork and training you need to transport dangerous goods

Disputes with neighbours - noisy neighbours, barking dogs, statutory nuisances, high hedges, mediation and when your council can step in

The latest versions of the Criminal Procedure Rules and of the Criminal Practice Directions made by the Lord Chief Justice.

• Updated: 24 June 2025