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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
Your employer can ask you to stay at home or take unpaid leave if there’s…
Rate and length of statutory lay-off pay You’re entitled to guarantee pay…
You could apply for redundancy and claim redundancy pay if you’ve been…
You can take on another job while you’re laid off or on short-time (unless…
How to use a before-and-after study to evaluate your digital health product.
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…
How to use an interrupted time series to evaluate your digital health product.
How to provide evidence of your UK residence if we can’t confirm this through an automated check of UK tax and some benefits records.
Employees' rights at work under fixed-term contracts - and what happens if a contract is renewed or ended.
How to develop monitoring strategies for assessing levels of pollutants in the ambient atmosphere.
Find out what steps you need to take before you calculate how much you can claim for furloughed and flexibly furloughed employees.
The National Registry for Radiation Workers (NRRW) is a UK-based study and database established to monitor the health effects of long-term, low-dose occupational exposure to ionizing radiation.
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