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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
How employment contracts can be changed, problems with changes and breach of contract
Rights of employees when accepting conditional and unconditional job offers and about breach of contract
Where to find internships and work placements.
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
What to do if you're an employer who has been taken to an employment tribunal. Find out about the hearing, what happens if you lose your case and how to appeal.
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.
Grievances and disciplinary action at work can be solved by informal discussions, formal procedures, mediation, conciliation or arbitration.
When employers move, employees with mobility clauses, what happens with redundancies, compensation, disputes and company takeovers
Your Statutory Adoption Pay and Leave - what you get, how to claim and eligibility
Your pay - your payslip, performance-related pay, deductions and how to work out your weekly pay
Employees can raise a grievance at work when an informal solution is not possible - grievance procedure, mediation, meetings, appeals
The Work and Health Programme helps you find and keep a job if you're out of work - eligibility, how to claim.
Disciplinary procedures your employer has at work - disciplinary hearings, appeals, suspension, dismissal and help and advice
Employees' rights at work under fixed-term contracts - and what happens if a contract is renewed or ended
Where you can work, your rights, healthcare, tax and National Insurance payments.
Rights for interns and students in the workplace; work experience; work placements; rights to the National Minimum Wage.
The rules for working on Sundays, opt in, opt out arrangements, rules for shop and betting shop workers
Support from Jobcentre Plus if you're recruiting - including work trials, recruitment advice, Youth Contract and other employment schemes
How to dismiss staff fairly, working within dismissal rules and dealing with dismissals relating to whistleblowing
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