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Overtime law - what is overtime, overtime pay, employee rights, part-time workers and time off in lieu
If you have normal working hours, overtime usually means any time you work…
You only have to work overtime if your contract says so. Even if it does,…
Usually, part-time workers must not be treated less favourably than…
Time off in lieu (TOIL) Some employers give you time off instead of paying…
Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes
Almost all people classed as workers are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks’…
For regular-hours workers, employers can use a ‘leave year’ or an…
Workers are entitled to a week’s pay for each week of statutory leave that…
The general notice period for taking leave is at least twice as long as…
During their notice period the worker may be able to take whatever is left…
Find out about different rules for entitlement for some employment types like agency workers, directors and educational workers.
Your pay - your payslip, performance-related pay, deductions and how to work out your weekly pay
Information for existing and new Universal Credit claimants with more than 2 children.
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
Information about Universal Credit for families with more than 2 children.
The rights of agricultural and farm workers - including pay rates, agricultural minimum wage, overtime, holiday leave, rest breaks, help and advice
A field experiment in Sri Lanka provided wage subsidies to randomly chosen microenterprises to test whether hiring additional labor benefits such firms
Workers' rights to rest breaks at work - length of breaks, how your age affects rest breaks, exceptions to the rules for shift workers, young people, and drivers
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