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

• Who can and cannot ask for time off to train

  Staff may have the right to ask for time off work for training or study.…

• Asking for time off

  Employees should follow their organisation’s rules to ask for time off. If…

• Employer's decision and responsibilities

  The employer has 28 days to: accept the request hold a meeting with the…

• Appealing the decision

  Employees have the right to appeal if their employer refuses a request to…

Upcoming changes due to the Employment Rights Act 2025

• Updated: 4 February 2026

Apply to set up an arrangement with your employer to be kept informed and to be consulted

• Overview

  You, together with other employees, can ask your employer to keep you…

• Eligibility

  To make a request, you need to be an employee of a company or organisation…

• Make a request

  You can either write to: your employer to request an arrangement the…

• What happens next

  Your employer can start negotiating with you straight away if they choose…

• If a ballot is held

  Your employer may hold a ballot (a vote) to decide if they should start…

• Negotiate an agreement

  You need to negotiate with your employer when they agree - or the Central…

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

Transitional and saving arrangements for the trade union measures of the Employment Rights Act 2025 coming into force on 18 February 2026: for employers, unions and workers.

• Updated: 8 January 2026

Discrimination policy and equal opportunities in recruitment and in the workplace - age discrimination, disabled workers, gender reassignment, sex discrimination

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

Workplace pensions - your employer's responsibilities to you to provide a workplace pension and what automatic enrolment means to you

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

Access and unfair practices during recognition and derecognition ballots

• Updated: 22 September 2020