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Strikes and industrial action - rights and responsibilities for employers, when unions can take action and the effect on employees' pay and working records

• Overview

  If there’s a workplace dispute at your business, you should try to resolve…

• Lawful industrial action

  Trade unions only have statutory immunity if the industrial action is…

• Strike pay and working records

  You can ask your employees if they’re planning to strike, so that you can…

• Picketing during strikes

  During the strike, workers and union reps may stand outside the place of…

• Non-union employees and strikes

  You can ask non-union employees to cover work during a strike, as long as:…

A guide to applying for a payment from the Hardship Fund. The fund helps low paid workers who are victims of crime.

• Updated: 22 February 2022

A guide to applying for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.

• Updated: 14 June 2024

How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register

Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Judge Tayler on 19 March 2025.

• Updated: 19 March 2025

How legal industrial action is organised, picketing and the law and what your employment rights when you are on strike

Guidance on the different types of compensation within the justice system.

• Updated: 22 December 2022

Object to a company's application to be removed from the companies register - how to find out if a company's applied for insolvency, who can object, how to object, what happens next.

Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator

Bullying at school and the law - what your school and the police must do about bullying and how you should report it