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Joining a union and getting recognition for collective bargaining and agreements - legal rules about membership, union reps and your rights
Employment rights and questions you can be asked about your disability - disability symbol, employment advisers and reasonable adjustments
Rights of employees when accepting conditional and unconditional job offers and about breach of contract
When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.
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
Your Statutory Adoption Pay and Leave - what you get, how to claim and eligibility
Personal data an employer can keep about an employee, and employee rights to see this information under data protection rules
Check your local council for advice on becoming a licensed chaperone for children in the entertainment, modelling or sports
Grievances and disciplinary action at work can be solved by informal discussions, formal procedures, mediation, conciliation or arbitration.
How employment contracts can be changed, problems with changes and breach of contract
Employees' rights at work under fixed-term contracts - and what happens if a contract is renewed or ended
When employers move, employees with mobility clauses, what happens with redundancies, compensation, disputes and company takeovers
What an employee needs to do when they resign from a job: how to give notice, notice period, payment arrangements, gardening leave, restrictive covenants
Where you can work, your rights, healthcare, tax and National Insurance payments.
You may need a child performance licence for any child taking part in a public performance, sporting event or modelling assignment
Rights for interns and students in the workplace; work experience; work placements; rights to the National Minimum Wage.
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
Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
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
Employees can raise a grievance at work when an informal solution is not possible - grievance procedure, mediation, meetings, appeals
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