Employment law guides: The complete list
Our Employment law guides provide accessible and constantly updated guidance on employment law, tailored to the needs of the HR professional.
Agency workers
Continuous employment
- Determining continuous employment
- Northern Ireland: continuous employment
- Scotland: continuous employment
Contracts of employment
- Confidentiality and restrictive covenants
- Determining employment status
- Express and implied contract terms
- Formation of the employment contract
- Variation of contracts
- Written statement of employment particulars
- Northern Ireland: contracts of employment
- Scotland: contracts of employment
Discipline and grievances
- Disciplinary rules and procedures
- Grievance procedures
- Northern Ireland: discipline and grievances
- Scotland: discipline and grievances
Employment tribunals and dispute resolution
- Alternative methods of dispute resolution
- Tribunal procedures and penalties
- Northern Ireland: employment tribunals and dispute resolution
- Scotland: employment tribunals and dispute resolution
Equality and human rights
- Direct discrimination
- Disability discrimination: definition of disability
- Disability discrimination: discrimination arising from disability
- Disability discrimination: duty to make reasonable adjustments
- Discrimination law: Protection and liability
- Discrimination law: The protected characteristics
- Discrimination: Burden of proof, time limits and remedies
- Equal pay: scope of protection
- Equal pay: identifying comparator
- Equal pay: types of equal work
- Equal pay: material factor defence
- Equal pay: time limits
- Equal value: tribunal procedure
- Equal pay: remedies and penalties
- Harassment
- Human rights
- Indirect discrimination
- Occupational requirements and other exceptions
- Pregnancy and maternity discrimination
- Public-sector equality duty
- Victimisation
- Northern Ireland: equality and human rights
- Scotland: equality and human rights
Family-friendly rights
- Adoption leave
- Adoption pay
- Maternity leave
- Maternity pay
- Neonatal care leave
- Neonatal care pay
- Ordinary parental leave
- Parental bereavement leave
- Parental bereavement pay
- Paternity leave
- Paternity pay
- Shared parental leave
- Shared parental pay
- Time off for dependants
- Northern Ireland: family-friendly rights
- Scotland: family-friendly rights
Financial services sector
- Discipline and dismissal: financial services
- Financial services regulation: financial services
- Internal transfers and promotions: financial services
- Monitoring: financial services
- Personal transactions and inducements: financial services
- Providing references: financial services
- Recruitment: financial services
- Remuneration: financial services
- Senior Managers and Certification Regimes: financial services
- Training and competence: financial services
- Whistleblowing: financial services
Fixed-term workers
Flexible working
- Part-time workers
- Right to request flexible working
- Northern Ireland: flexible working
- Scotland: flexible working
Health and safety
- Civil and criminal liability for health and safety breaches
- Health and safety consultation, information and safety signs
- Employment implications of health and safety laws
- General health and safety duties
- Incident response
- Health and safety policy, organisation and performance review
- Risk assessment and hazard management
- Safety training
- Health and safety of specific vulnerable people
- Northern Ireland: health and safety
- Scotland: health and safety
Holiday and holiday pay
- Holiday and holiday pay: irregular hours and part-year workers
- Holiday entitlement
- Holiday: notice, timing and carry-over
- Holiday pay
- Northern Ireland: holiday and holiday pay
- Scotland: holiday and holiday pay
Information and consultation
- European Works Councils
- Informing and consulting on employment matters
- Informing and consulting on pension scheme changes
- Northern Ireland: information and consultation
- Scotland: information and consultation
Pay and benefits
- Bonuses
- Company car schemes and travel allowances
- Childcare benefits
- Deductions from wages and attachment of earnings
- Expenses
- Guarantee payments
- IR35
- Itemised pay statements and statements of fixed deductions
- Pay and the employment contract
- Pay As You Earn
- Share schemes and share ownership plans
- Statutory sick pay
- The national minimum wage
- Northern Ireland: pay and benefits
- Scotland: pay and benefits
Pay gap reporting
- Gender pay gap reporting: scope of obligations
- Gender pay gap reporting: collecting pay data
- Gender pay gap reporting: calculating pay gap figures
- Gender pay gap reporting: publishing gender pay gap information
- Gender pay gap reporting in public sector
- Northern Ireland: pay gap reporting
- Scotland: pay gap reporting
Pensions
- Occupational pensions and employment law
- Pensions auto-enrolment
- State pension
- Workplace pensions
- Northern Ireland: pensions
- Scotland: pensions
Personal data
Public interest disclosures
Recruitment and selection
- Discrimination in recruitment and selection
- Employing young people and children
- Immigration rules and right to work
- Job applicants with convictions
- Making job offers
- Unlawful recruitment practices
- Northern Ireland: recruitment and selection
- Scotland: recruitment and selection
Redundancy
- Collective redundancy consultation: scope of obligations
- Collective redundancy consultation: duty to consult
- Lay-off and short-time working
- Redundancy: definition of redundancy
- Redundancy: enhanced redundancy pay
- Redundancy: fair redundancy process
- Redundancy: protection during pregnancy and during/after family-friendly leave
- Redundancy: statutory redundancy pay
- Northern Ireland: redundancy
- Scotland: redundancy
Termination of employment
- Final payments
- Insolvency of employer
- Notice periods: pay in lieu of notice
- Notice periods: statutory and contractual notice
- Providing references
- Retirement
- Termination by mutual consent and frustration of contract
- Unfair dismissal: automatically unfair reasons for dismissal
- Unfair dismissal: capability or qualifications
- Unfair dismissal: conduct
- Unfair dismissal: constructive dismissal
- Unfair dismissal: contravention of statutory duty or restriction
- Unfair dismissal: effective date of termination
- Unfair dismissal: qualifying conditions for claiming
- Unfair dismissal: some other substantial reason
- Written statement of reasons for dismissal
- Northern Ireland: termination of employment
- Scotland: termination of employment
Trade unions and industrial action
- Handling industrial action
- Picketing
- The consequences of trade union recognition
- Trade union recognition
- Northern Ireland: trade unions and industrial action
- Scotland: trade unions and industrial action
Training
TUPE
- TUPE: scope of protection
- TUPE: business transfer
- TUPE: service provision change
- TUPE: share sale
- TUPE: who and what transfers?
- TUPE: varying terms and conditions of employment
- TUPE: dismissals
- TUPE: duty to inform and consult representatives
- TUPE: duty to notify employee liability information
- TUPE: pensions, collective agreements and trade union recognition
- TUPE: bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings
- Northern Ireland: TUPE
- Scotland: TUPE
Working time
- Hours of work: general rules for adult workers
- Hours of work: specific rules for vulnerable workers
- Hours of work: transport and excluded sectors
- Rest breaks and rest periods
- Sunday working for shop and betting workers
- Time off work
- Northern Ireland: working time
- Scotland: working time
