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Get help and advice on employment rights - telephone, opening hours, website
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.
Use the online form to complain about not being paid the National Minimum Wage, employment agencies, gangmasters or working hours.
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
Rights for interns and students in the workplace; work experience; work placements; rights to the National Minimum Wage.
The rules for employment agencies and businesses: licences, vulnerable people, opting out, job advertisements, transfer fees, trade unions, terms and conditions and contracts, travel and accommodation for work-seekers
Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace
As an agency worker, you have certain rights when using temp, recruitment agencies or employment agencies to find work - pay, holidays, equal treatment, fees.
Overtime law - what is overtime, overtime pay, employee rights, part-time workers and time off in lieu
Your pay - your payslip, performance-related pay, deductions and how to work out your weekly pay
Who's entitled to the minimum wage, what's included when working out the minimum wage, and what happens if there's a dispute.
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
Employment Relations Research Series no 113.
A contract is an agreement between employee and employer setting out implied and explicit terms and conditions - written statement of particulars, collective agreements
The employment status of au pairs, nannies, carers, personal assistants and other people who work in your home - how to tell if they're an employee or not, what happens with the National Minimum Wage, tax and National Insurance, what...
Travel disruption and work - employee rights, employer rights, paid and unpaid holiday entitlement, winter weather
The rights of agricultural and farm workers - including pay rates, agricultural minimum wage, overtime, holiday leave, rest breaks, help and advice
Find out about agricultural workers' pay and working conditions, labour laws, and health and safety laws.
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