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Find out how to prove your right to work in the UK to an employer. Get an online share code to prove your right to work if you’re eligible or check what documents you can use instead.
You’ll need to prove your right to work in the UK to your employer before…
Get a share code to prove your right to work in the UK if you’re not a…
If you’re not a British or Irish citizen, you can usually prove your right…
Get help at work, including an Access to Work grant, if you have a disability or health condition - eligibility, how to apply.
Access to Work can help you get or stay in work if you have a physical or…
As part of Access to Work, you may be eligible for: a grant to help pay…
Check you’re eligible before you apply. If you’re a civil servant, your…
Someone from Access to Work will contact you to talk about your…
You can claim money from your grant online or by post. To claim money from…
You’ll need to renew your Access to Work grant before it ends if you use…
Apply for a Skilled Worker visa (formerly a Tier 2 General work visa) if you’ve been offered a skilled job with a UK employer - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children, taking on additional...
A Skilled Worker visa allows you to come to or stay in the UK to do an…
You must meet both the following requirements to be eligible for a Skilled…
There are lower salary requirements if either: you got your certificate of…
You might still be able to apply for a Skilled Worker visa if your job is…
There are different salary rules if you work in some healthcare or…
You’ll usually need to prove your knowledge of the English language when…
When you apply for a Skilled Worker visa, you’ll need to have enough money…
When you apply you’ll need to provide: your certificate of sponsorship…
You must apply online for a Skilled Worker visa. Check which documents…
Your partner and children can also apply to join you or stay in the UK as…
You can usually apply to extend a Skilled Worker visa or a Tier 2…
You’ll need to apply to update your Skilled Worker or Tier 2 (General)…
You might be able to apply to change (‘switch’) to a Skilled Worker visa…
If you work overtime in the job you’re being sponsored for, you do not…
Make sure a job applicant can work in the UK - check they have the right documents and make sure you're not prosecuted for employing an illegal worker.
Find out if a potential employee's document gives them the right to work in the UK and which documents employers should check.
Use a job applicant's share code to check they're eligible to work in the UK if they’re from outside the UK and Ireland.
The Work and Health Programme helps you find and keep a job if you're out of work - eligibility, how to claim.
Find out about help you can get moving from benefits to work - work trials, programmes and clubs, New Enterprise Allowance, help with drug or alcohol problems, carer support
Working time directive and maximum weekly working hours including how to calculate your weekly working hours and working time limits if you're a young worker.
If you're on a low income or out of work, Universal Credit supports you to find a job or increase the hours you work.
How to offer work to people arriving in the UK from Ukraine.
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.
Where you can work, your rights, healthcare, tax and National Insurance payments.
Statistics on people who joined the Work Programme, participants who achieved defined periods in work and participants who completed the programme.
Employment rights and questions you can be asked about your disability - disability symbol, employment advisers and reasonable adjustments
Official experimental statistics on the number of people who had Access to Work provision approved.
Travel disruption and work - employee rights, employer rights, paid and unpaid holiday entitlement, winter weather
Guidance on the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage for organisations who offer work experience, including placements and internships.
Advice for employers carrying out right to work checks during the coronavirus pandemic.
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
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