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Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace
In employment law a person’s employment status helps determine: their…
A person is generally classed as a ‘worker’ if: they have a contract or…
An employee is someone who works under an employment contract. A person…
An employee shareholder is someone who works under an employment contract…
A person is self-employed if they run their business for themselves and…
Company directors run limited companies on behalf of shareholders.…
A person who’s been appointed to a position by a company or organisation…
A court or employment tribunal (known as an industrial tribunal in…
Requesting flexible working, how to make an application, what business reasons an employer can give to reject an application and how to appeal.
Flexible working is a way of working that suits an employee’s needs, for…
There are different ways of working flexibly. Job sharing Two people do…
Employees can apply for flexible working from their first day in a job.…
Employers must consider flexible working requests in a ‘reasonable…
Employees no longer have a statutory right to an appeal but may still be…
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
If you run an employment agency or employment business you have to follow…
Some employment agencies need a licence if they are supplying specific…
Before placing a work-seeker with a hirer, you must get sufficient…
Before you supply work-seekers to work with vulnerable people you have to:…
Work-seekers registered as limited companies are also covered by the rules…
You must not advertise a job without the full details of the position. You…
If you run an employment business you can sometimes charge a transfer fee…
Employment businesses’ terms and conditions with work-seekers If you run…
You cannot refuse to provide services to work-seekers or to provide them…
You can charge for other services like CV writing and transport to jobs.…
You must not introduce or supply a work-seeker to a hirer unless you’ve…
Accommodation When a job involves working away from home and the…
Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes.
Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal care or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy.
Your Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - what you get, how to claim, maternity rights and extra help
Find out how your Personal Allowance is allocated and how Income Tax and tax codes work if you have more than one job or source of income.
If your employer is 'insolvent' this means it cannot pay its debts - your rights if this happens, claiming money owed to you, where to get advice
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
Back to work programmes to help Universal Credit, Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance claimants move nearer to, or into, work.
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