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Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy

Employers might monitor workers, but if the monitoring involves taking data, images or drug testing they have to do this in a way that's legal and fair

• Overview

  Employers might monitor workers. This could be done in various ways, like:…

• Drug testing

  Employers have to have consent if they want to test for drugs. Usually…

• Email, CCTV and other monitoring

  Employers must explain the amount of monitoring clearly in the staff…

Part-time workers should not be treated less favourably than full-time workers; employers' responsibilities and what part-time workers can do if they're treated unfairly

Wage slips must show any deductions and explain them - not everyone has the right to a payslip

Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace

What you can expect from your employer and what your responsibilities are as an employee. What to do if you think you are being treated unfairly at work.

• Updated: 16 January 2023

Dismissal is when your employer ends your employment - reasons you can be dismissed, unfair and constructive dismissal and what to do if you're dismissed

When employers move, employees with mobility clauses, what happens with redundancies, compensation, disputes and company takeovers

Legal rights for pregnant employees - including paid time off for antenatal appointments, maternity leave and pay, protection against discrimination and telling the employer about the pregnancy.

Employee rights and employer legal obligations - the Information and Consultation of Employee regulations, setting up information and consultation agreements, complaints

Travel disruption and work - employee rights, employer rights, paid and unpaid holiday entitlement, winter weather

Your rights to request time off for training or study while in a job

Personal data an employer can keep about an employee, and employee rights to see this information under data protection rules

Get help and advice on employment rights - telephone, opening hours, website

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

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

Requesting flexible working, how to make an application, what business reasons an employer can give to reject an application and how to appeal.

Rights of employees when accepting conditional and unconditional job offers and about breach of contract

Employees' rights at work under fixed-term contracts - and what happens if a contract is renewed or ended

A contract is an agreement between employee and employer setting out implied and explicit terms and conditions - written statement of particulars, collective agreements