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Overtime law - what is overtime, overtime pay, employee rights, part-time workers and time off in lieu

• Overview

  If you have normal working hours, overtime usually means any time you work…

• Compulsory overtime

  You only have to work overtime if your contract says so. Even if it does,…

• Part-time workers

  Usually, part-time workers must not be treated less favourably than…

• Time off and paid leave

  Time off in lieu (TOIL) Some employers give you time off instead of paying…

Find out about the different rules that apply to some employment types to decide your employee’s entitlement of Statutory Neonatal Care Pay.

• Updated: 6 April 2025

Find out about different rules for entitlement for some employment types like agency workers, directors and educational workers.

• Updated: 1 September 2017

Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes

Information for existing and new Universal Credit claimants with more than 2 children.

• Updated: 27 January 2021

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

Information about Universal Credit for families with more than 2 children.

• Updated: 5 March 2021

Your pay - your payslip, performance-related pay, deductions and how to work out your weekly pay

Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments

A field experiment in Sri Lanka provided wage subsidies to randomly chosen microenterprises to test whether hiring additional labor benefits such firms

• Updated: 21 October 2020