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Rights of employees when accepting conditional and unconditional job offers and about breach of contract
Guidance you should consider when considering the employee shareholder employment status.
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Redundancy is when you dismiss an employee because you no longer need…
You should take steps to avoid compulsory redundancies, for example by:…
You can lay off an employee (ask them to stay at home or take unpaid…
Voluntary redundancy This is where you ask employees if they’d like to…
If you decide you need to make compulsory redundancies, you must: identify…
If you do not consult employees in a redundancy situation, any…
You must give staff notice and agree a leaving date once you’ve finished…
Employees you make redundant might be entitled to redundancy pay - this is…
If you make staff redundant, you may give them a ‘termination payment’.…
If you have to make redundancies, Jobcentre Plus can give you and your…
The benefits of recruiting people who have served in the armed forces and services offered by the Career Transition Partnership (CTP).
How to offer work to people arriving in the UK from Ukraine.
A contract is an agreement between employee and employer setting out implied and explicit terms and conditions - written statement of particulars, collective agreements
When employers move, employees with mobility clauses, what happens with redundancies, compensation, disputes and company takeovers
Requesting flexible working, how to make an application, what business reasons an employer can give to reject an application and how to appeal.
New and old Fair Deal policy, TUPE regulations, bulk transfers and broad comparability assessments; GAD support for public sector organisations.
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
Starting from March 2024, the MOD will begin introducing a new accommodation offer for our armed forces.
How employment contracts can be changed, problems with changes and breach of contract
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
Workplace pensions - what employers have to do, automatic enrolment, ongoing duties, stakeholder pensions
Employees' rights at work under fixed-term contracts - and what happens if a contract is renewed or ended
This publication provides guidance for businesses considering making offers of employment to people coming to the UK from Ukraine.
Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing meals for employees and directors
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
A list of services across the UK that offer support to veterans.
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