Contracts and working hours

Includes employment status, workers' rights and changes to contracts

Services

  • Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes

  • 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

  • What the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) is, work covered by the scheme and find out whether you should register as a contractor or subcontractor.

  • 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.

  • Requesting flexible working, how to make an application, what business reasons an employer can give to reject an application and how to appeal.

Guidance and regulation

News and communications

Research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases