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  • Making staff redundant

    Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay

  • What you must do as a Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) contractor

    What you have to do under the Construction Industry Scheme if you're a contractor - registering, filing returns, paying subcontractors and keeping records.

  • References: your rights

    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.

  • Business transfers, takeovers and TUPE

    When a business changes owner, employees could be protected under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations (TUPE) - types of transfers, your rights, contracts, redundancy, where to get help

  • Over 80 pension

    If you're over 80 you can get your State Pension topped up to £101.55 a week in 2024 to 2025 - for men born before 6 April 1951 and women born before 6 April 1953

  • Payslips: employee rights

    Wage slips must show any deductions and explain them - not everyone has the right to a payslip

  • Employing an apprentice

    How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.

  • Part-time workers' rights

    Part-time workers should not be treated less favourably than full-time workers; employers' responsibilities and what part-time workers can do if they're treated unfairly

  • Transferring your pension

    Benefits and risks of transferring your pension pot or pension in payment within the UK or overseas

  • Employers' liability insurance

    Your insurance must cover you for at least £5 million - check authorised insurers and how you can be fined

  • Continuous employment

    Employees working for one employer without a break, employments rights for continuous services, breaks that do not affect continuous service

  • Your rights if your employer is insolvent

    If your employer is 'insolvent' this means it cannot pay its debts - your rights if this happens, claiming money owed to you, where to get advice

  • Overtime: your rights

    Overtime law - what is overtime, overtime pay, employee rights, part-time workers and time off in lieu

  • Handing in your notice

    What an employee needs to do when they resign from a job: how to give notice, notice period, payment arrangements, gardening leave, restrictive covenants

  • Employing staff for the first time

    The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before

  • Job offers: your rights

    Rights of employees when accepting conditional and unconditional job offers and about breach of contract

  • Checks employers can make on job applicants

    Checks employers might need to run on job applicants, including right to work in the UK, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS - formerly CRB) checks and health checks

  • Changing an employment contract

    How employment contracts can be changed, problems with changes and breach of contract

  • Penalties for employing illegal workers

    You can receive an unlimited fine for employing an illegal worker - find out what happens and what you can do

  • Employment rights and pay for interns

    Rights for interns and students in the workplace; work experience; work placements; rights to the National Minimum Wage.