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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

• Overview

  Your employer can ask you to stay at home or take unpaid leave if there’s…

• Guarantee pay

  Rate and length of statutory lay-off pay You’re entitled to guarantee pay…

• Applying for redundancy

  You could apply for redundancy and claim redundancy pay if you’ve been…

• Extra work or claiming benefits

  You can take on another job while you’re laid off or on short-time (unless…

Form NAP: notice to the registrar in respect of an adverse possession application.

Apply through your local council for short-term ('respite') care for your sick or disabled child to enable you to have a break from caring

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.

The rules on working hours - hour and limits, rests, health assessments and terms and conditions

Number of guest nights, nights, and stays for short-term lets offered via online collaborative economy platforms from July to December 2025.

• Updated: 4 February 2026

THis study draws on data from the Young Lives programme

• Updated: 1 January 2014

Accommodation provided by an employer can affect the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage: offset rates, accommodation charges.

A mixed-methods study

• Updated: 29 October 2019

North Sea Camp is an open prison for men aged 18 and over in Boston, Lincolnshire.

• Updated: 18 September 2025