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The National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates: age, apprentices, previous years.
Holiday calculator to work out statutory holiday leave in days or hours
Calculate how much statutory redundancy you can get based on age, weekly pay and number of years in the job
Choosing a legal structure when you're starting a business: the differences between being a sole trader and a limited company, including legal risk, registration and taxes.
Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes
Search the Individual Insolvency Register for details about bankruptcy orders, Debt Relief Orders, Individual Voluntary Arrangements, and restrictions orders and undertakings
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
Maternity or Paternity Leave or Pay, or Maternity Allowance for parents
Loans and mentoring for people looking to start or grow a business in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Working time directive and maximum weekly working hours including how to calculate your weekly working hours and working time limits if you're a young worker.
Being made redundant - rights, statutory payments you're entitled to, notice periods and consultation, finding a job.
Minimum working age and pay for children, how to apply for performance licences and what local council bylaws say about employing children, paying someone over 16
Employer and employee guide to unpaid parental leave - eligibility, how much leave can be taken and notice periods, postponing leave
Check if your pay matches the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if your employer owes you payments from the previous year.
You can start Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) if you're eligible and you or your partner ends your maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, starting SPL and split…
Employer guide to Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - rates, eligibility, notice period, form SMP1, recover statutory pay
Requesting flexible working, how to make an application, what business reasons an employer can give to reject an application and how to appeal.
How to take an employer to a tribunal: the hearing, what happens if you lose your case, how to appeal.
When you do and do not have to offer a refund, repair or replacement, unconditional refunds for online purchases, and penalties for deceiving customers
Find a Trading Standards office to complain about illegal sales activity or to get business advice about trading legally
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