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Get information and advice on statutory redundancy pay in England, Scotland and Wales - telephone, opening hours
Disciplinary procedures your employer has at work - disciplinary hearings, appeals, suspension, dismissal and help and advice
Where you can work, your rights, healthcare, tax and National Insurance payments.
Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
Correct mistakes with pay and deductions including National Insurance (NI), amend errors in FPS payroll reports, correct payments to HMRC.
Print or request a claim form to claim the basic State Pension by post.
What you can do if an employee is called up for jury service, and how to sort out their pay or help them claim an allowance
Guidance for people of State Pension age living outside the UK who have been asked to return a Life Certificate.
Accommodation provided by an employer can affect the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage: offset rates, accommodation charges.
The rules for working on Sundays, opt in, opt out arrangements, rules for shop and betting shop workers
The law on smoking in the workplace and what businesses must do to prevent smoking at work
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
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
Find out about help you can get moving from benefits to work - training, work trials, starting your own business, help with drug or alcohol problems, carer support
How to dismiss staff fairly, working within dismissal rules and dealing with dismissals relating to whistleblowing.
Use this form to claim Pension Credit by post if you cannot claim online by phone.
Agricultural Sick Pay means you're paid wages while you're sick - can you get it, how to claim, what you'll get.
Employers might monitor workers, but if the monitoring involves taking data, images or drug testing they have to do this in a way that's legal and fair
An employer can suspend an employee from work if their health and safety is in danger - employee right to pay, alternative work and how to handle problems
If there is a mistake on your DBS certificate, the forms and guidance explain what you need to do.
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