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.

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

  • 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.

Guidance and regulation

News and communications

Research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases