EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS

REGULATORY GUIDANCE

Employment legislation

• Benefit repayment by employers after a tribunal award (PL720)
• Collective redundancies and business transfers
• Continuous employment and a week's pay (PL711)
• Contracts of employment: changes, breach of contract and deductions from wages (PL810)
• Dismissal: fair and unfair  (PL714)
• Dispute resolution - guide to the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998
• The Employment Agencies Act 1973 (PL971)
• Transfers of undertakings: a guide to the regulations (PL699)
• European works councils
• Fixed-term work (PL512)
• Guarantee payments (PL724)
• Homeworking: don't be taken in by bogus job offers
• Individual rights of employees (PL716)
• Know your rights: the law on employment agencies
• Limits on payments (PL827)
• National minimum wage
• Pay statements: what they must itemise (PL704)
• Posting of workers directive
• Disclosures in the public interest: protections for workers who 'blow the whistle' (PL 502)
• Redundancy consultation and notification (PL833)
• Redundancy entitlement - statutory rights (PL808)
• Rights to notice and reasons for dismissal (PL707)
• Unfairly dismissed? (PL712)
• Working time regulations
• Written statement of employment particulars (PL700)
• Example form of a written statement of employment particulars (PL700A)
• Redundancy and insolvency: a guide for employees
• Know your rights: Employment relations information for workers 

Time off, maternity and other parental legislation

• Basic summaries of new employment legislation on:
  Adoptive parents – rights to leave and pay (PL515)
  Flexible working – the right to apply (PL516)
  Maternity leave – changes (PL507)
  Paternity – leave and pay (PL514)

• Adoption leave and pay

• Flexible working

• Maternity rights
• Paternity rights
• Parental leave
• Suspension from work on medical or maternity grounds (PL705)
• Time off for public duties (PL702)
• Time off for dependants

Trade unions

• Industrial action and the law: a guide for employees (PL869)
• Industrial action and the law: a guide for employers (PL870)
• Industrial action and the law: citizen's right to prevent disruption (PL943)
• Payment of union subscriptions (PL944)
• Trade union executive elections (PL866)
• Trade union funds and accounting records (PL867)
• Trade union political funds (PL868)
• Union membership: rights of members and non-members (PL871)
• Unjustifiable discipline by a trade union (PL865)
• Picketing (PL928)
• Industrial action ballots and notice to employers (PL962)
• Access to workers during recognition and derecognition ballots (PL500)

Sunday trading

• Sunday shop and betting work: employees' rights (PL960)

NOTE: The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) produces a number of guidance publications. These include advice leaflets on lay-offs and short-time working, varying a contract of employment, holidays and holiday pay, and bullying. Acas also issues several codes of practice, including one covering disciplinary and grievance procedures. Further details are available from the Acas website

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Last updated 13 February 2004