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The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.

• Updated: 18 September 2024

How to apply for a full or partial completion certificate after building work on a higher-risk building has been completed.

• Updated: 27 March 2025

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…

FCDO travel advice for the Turks and Caicos Islands. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 31 October 2025

Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Lord Fairley on 21 January 2026.

• Updated: 4 February 2026

Visiting a prisoner: visiting times, keeping in touch by email, telephone or letter, banned items and sending money to a prisoner by debit card or online bank transfer

The law on squatting - what squatting is, squatters' rights, removing squatters, getting your property back from squatters and adverse possession. Includes information from the withdrawn EX332 and EX333 guidance.

Strikes and industrial action - rights and responsibilities for employers, when unions can take action and the effect on employees' pay and working records

FCDO travel advice for the Falkland Islands. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 13 January 2026

Tax and reporting rules for employers providing social functions, including annual parties, for employees