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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-striking employees to cover work during a strike, as long…
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’)…
Object to a company's application to be removed from the companies register - how to find out if a company's applied for insolvency, who can object, how to object, what happens next.
You can object to a limited company being struck off the Companies…
To object online you need: the limited company number of the company that…
Companies House will let you know if your objection is successful. If it…
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
Claim compensation from the Motor Insurers' Bureau if you're the victim of a hit and run or uninsured driver
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
FCDO travel advice for Japan. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
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