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This guidance is for local authority staff to process claims and administer Housing Benefit, including Local Housing Allowance.
These instructions are used by Department for Work and Pensions staff to allocate National Insurance numbers.
A practical guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition.
Your rights to request time off for training or study while in a job
Employer guide to Statutory Paternity Pay or Leave - entitlement, eligibility, notice period, forms SC3 and SPP1, recover statutory pay.
Employee rights and employer legal obligations - the Information and Consultation of Employee regulations, setting up information and consultation agreements, complaints
Personal data an employer can keep about an employee, and employee rights to see this information under data protection rules
Your employee can take Shared Parental Leave (SPL) if they're eligible and they or their partner ends their maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, starting SPL, splitting blocks of leave and record keeping
This guidance explains actions required if you are given a fit note (Statement of Fitness for Work) by an employee.
Employees' rights at work under fixed-term contracts - and what happens if a contract is renewed or ended
Wage slips must show any deductions and explain them - not everyone has the right to a payslip
Fit notes (formerly sick notes), holiday during sick leave, returning to work, long-term sick, dismissals
Guidance about signing up for the Disability Confident scheme, and how it can help your business.
Your legal right to time off to care for dependants - when you can take time off, how long you get, your rights
Disciplinary procedures your employer has at work - disciplinary hearings, appeals, suspension, dismissal and help and advice
The steps you must take when someone dies - register a death, report a death with Tell Us Once, coroners, funerals and death abroad.
Getting a work reference from an employer either while in work or when applying for a new job – and what you can do if you think it's unfair.
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