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HR & Compliance Centre employment glossary
The HR & Compliance Centre employment glossary provides concise explanations of legal and employment-related words, phrases and abbreviations in plain English.

Adoption leave
Length of adoption leave

Agency workers
Agency Workers Regulations - breaks that pause the 12-week qualifying period

Award limits
Award limits and amounts payable under employment legislation from 1 February 2013
Breach of contract - claim brought in employment tribunal

Calculators and interactive guidance
Calculators on HR & Compliance Centre
Official sources of interactive online guidance for employers

Codes of practice/guidance
Codes of practice and guidance on employment law

Compensation
Compensation - collective rights
Compensation - detrimental treatment
Compensation - discipline and grievance hearings
Compensation - discrimination and equal pay
Compensation - dismissal
Compensation - fixed-term employees
Compensation - flexible working
Compensation - injury to feelings
Compensation - part-time workers
Compensation - pay and statutory payments
Compensation - suspension from work
Compensation - time off work

Criminal convictions
Criminal record checks
Jobs where it is lawful to ask for details of spent convictions
Jobs where it is lawful to ask for details of spent convictions (Scotland)
Rehabilitation periods

Data protection
Sensitive personal data
Personal data notification fees

Disability discrimination
Long-term effect
Normal day-to-day activities under the repealed Disability Discrimination Act 1995
Reasonable adjustments

Discipline and grievance
Right to be accompanied at discipline and grievance hearings - meaning of disciplinary and grievance hearing
Right to be accompanied at discipline and grievance hearings - the companion
Right to be accompanied at discipline and grievance hearings - the role of the companion

Discrimination questionnaires
Time limits for serving and responding

Employment status
Statutory rights available to all workers/employees only

First aid
Suggested number of first-aiders/appointed persons

Foreign employees
Countries in the European Economic Area
Documentation acceptable as proof of right to work in the UK - indefinite right to work in the UK (list A)
Documentation acceptable as proof of right to work in the UK - limited right to work in the UK (list B)
Documentation acceptable as proof of right to work in UK - acceptable combinations of documents (prior to 29 February 2008)
Documentation acceptable as proof of right to work in UK - acceptable single documents (prior to 29 February 2008)
Proof of right to work in the UK - copying/recording of documents requirements

Holiday
Bank and public holidays 2013 (England and Wales)
Bank and public holidays 2013 (Northern Ireland)
Statutory bank holidays 2013 (Scotland)
Bank and public holidays 2014 (England and Wales)
Bank and public holidays 2014 (Northern Ireland)
Statutory bank holidays 2014 (Scotland)
Bank and public holidays 2015 (England and Wales)
Bank and public holidays 2015 (Northern Ireland)
Statutory bank holidays 2015 (Scotland)

Information and consultation agreements
Information and consultation - pre-existing agreements
Information and consultation - standard provisions
Information and consultation - valid employee requests

Jurors' allowances
Loss of earnings
Subsistence
Travel

Manual handling
Risk assessments

Maternity leave
Commencement of maternity leave periods
Compulsory maternity leave
Length of maternity leave
Notification of maternity leave

Mobile telephones
Use of mobile telephones while driving

Notice
Consequences of making a payment in lieu of notice
Statutory minimum notice to be given to employees
Statutory minimum notice to be given to employers

Paternity leave
Length of paternity leave

Pay and benefits
Guarantee payments
Insolvency payments
Itemised pay statement - what must be included
National insurance lower earnings limit
National minimum wage
Statutory adoption pay
Statutory maternity pay
Ordinary statutory paternity pay
Additional statutory paternity pay
Statutory sick pay

Pensions
Pension auto-enrolment - staging dates
Pension auto-enrolment - categories of worker
State pension

Qualifying periods
Qualifying periods for statutory rights
Statutory rights with no qualifying periods

Record-keeping
Statutory requirements

Redundancy
Collective redundancies - appropriate representatives
Collective redundancies - duty to consult representatives
Collective redundancies - information to be communicated to representatives
Enhanced redundancy payments
Relevant date for the purposes of redundancy
Statutory redundancy payments ready reckoner

Religion or belief
Bereavement
Clothing/appearance
Dietary restrictions
Prayer/worship

Reporting of injuries and dangerous occurrences
Major injuries

Reserve forces
Awards to employers
Requirements for financial assistance claim

Right to request flexible working
Flexible working requests - contract variation
Flexible working requests - permissible reasons for rejection
Flexible working requests - required contents

Temperatures
Recommended temperatures in the workplace

Time limits for bringing tribunal claims
Claims for breach of contract or a sum due under the contract
Discrimination
Dismissal
Parental rights
Pay
Redundancy/transfer of undertakings
Union membership/activities
Working time regulations

Time off
Parental leave
Statutory time off
Time off during redundancy notice
Time off for dependants
Time off for public duties

Training
Government training initiatives

Transfer of undertakings
TUPE - employee liability information

Tribunal rules and fees
Employment tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal fees
Type A and type B tribunal claims
Rejection of tribunal claims

Unfair dismissal
Automatically unfair reasons for dismissal
Automatically unfair reasons for selection for redundancy
Effective date of termination
Maximum unfair dismissal compensation award - historical data
Potentially fair reasons for dismissal
Unfair dismissal additional award
Unfair dismissal basic award
Unfair dismissal compensatory award

Useful contact details
Employment relations organisations and bodies

Week's pay
Calculation of a week's pay
Maximum amount of a week's pay

Working time
Daily rest periods
Maximum working week
Rest breaks
Weekly rest periods
What is included

Written statement of terms and conditions of employment
Further information
Note on discipline and grievances
Principal statement

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