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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

• Overview

  Your employer can ask you to stay at home or take unpaid leave if there’s…

• Guarantee pay

  Rate and length of statutory lay-off pay You’re entitled to guarantee pay…

• Applying for redundancy

  You could apply for redundancy and claim redundancy pay if you’ve been…

• Extra work or claiming benefits

  You can take on another job while you’re laid off or on short-time (unless…

A review of the research literature on the effect of extra time on assessment outcomes for different types of student

• Updated: 27 November 2025

Pubs could stay open for extra time next summer.

• Updated: 4 December 2025

Get help and extra support when dealing with HMRC if you have additional needs - for example you have a disability or health condition, if English is not your first language or if you’re experiencing domestic abuse or financial hardship.

This report presents the latest headline estimates of how adults (16+) spend their free time for the year April 2017 to March 2018.

• Updated: 31 October 2018

What Tax-Free Childcare is, who can get it and how to apply.

What you need to know about being part of the Taking Part survey.

• Updated: 10 December 2018

Buy your rented home through the Right to Shared Ownership scheme: who can apply, how to apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares, repairing and selling your home.

Find out about buying a home through shared ownership. Read about who can apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares and repairing and selling your home.

Report on Ofqual’s work to understand the trends in access arrangements for GCSE, AS and A level, and its expectations for exam boards as a result

• Updated: 27 November 2025