Quick reference: The complete list
Our quick references provide key employment law facts on a wide range of topics.
Calculators and interactive guidance
Codes of practice and official guidance
Criminal records
- 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)
- Criminal record checks
- Rehabilitation periods
Discipline and grievances
- Right to be accompanied at disciplinary and grievance hearings - meaning of disciplinary and grievance hearings
- Right to be accompanied at disciplinary and grievance hearings - the companion
- Right to be accompanied at disciplinary and grievance hearings - the role of the companion
Disability discrimination
Employment tribunal claims and awards categories
Compensation payable by employers
- Award limits and amounts payable under employment legislation 2024/25
- Maximum unfair dismissal compensation award - historical data
- Maximum amount of a week's pay
- Unfair dismissal compensation
- Compensation - collective rights
- Compensation - discipline and grievance hearings
- Compensation - dismissal
- Compensation - flexible working
- Compensation - pay and statutory payments
- Compensation - injury to feelings
- Compensation - time off work
- Compensation - suspension from work
- Compensation - discrimination and equal pay
- Compensation - detrimental treatment
- Compensation - fixed-term employees
- Compensation - part-time workers
- Calculation of a week's pay
- Breach of contract - claim brought in employment tribunal
- Compensation - flexible working
Awards made by employment tribunal
- Unfair dismissal awards
- Race discrimination awards
- Sex discrimination awards
- Disability discrimination awards
- Sexual orientation discrimination awards
- Age discrimination awards
- Religious discrimination awards
Claims submitted to the employment tribunal - statistics
Employment tribunal rules
Time limits for bringing tribunal claims
- Time limits for bringing tribunal claims - discrimination
- Time limits for bringing tribunal claims - dismissal
- Time limits for bringing tribunal claims - union membership/activities
- Time limits for bringing tribunal claims - pay
- Time limits for bringing tribunal claims - redundancy/transfer of undertakings
- Time limits for bringing tribunal claims - working time regulations
- Time limits for bringing tribunal claims - claims for breach of contract or a sum due under the contract
- Time limits for bringing tribunal claims - parental rights
EU law
Family-friendly rights
- Statutory paternity pay
- National insurance lower earnings limit
- Statutory adoption pay
- Statutory shared parental pay
- Statutory maternity pay (SMP)
- Length of parental bereavement leave
- Length of statutory maternity leave
- Length of statutory shared parental leave
- Length of statutory paternity leave
- Ordinary parental leave
- Length of statutory adoption leave
- Notification of maternity leave
- Commencement of maternity leave periods
- Compulsory maternity leave
- Time off for dependants
Foreign nationals applying for work
- Immigration routes for employing migrants in the UK
- Proof of right to work in the UK - copying of documents requirements
- 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)
- Business visitors in the UK
- Countries in the European Economic Area
Health and safety
- Record-keeping - statutory requirements
- Reporting of injuries and dangerous occurrences - specified injuries
- First aid - suggested number of first-aiders/appointed persons
- Recommended temperatures in the workplace
- Reporting of injuries and dangerous occurrences - specified injuries
Information and consultation
- Collective redundancies - duty to consult representatives
- Collective redundancies - information to be communicated to representatives
- Information and consultation - standard provisions
- Information and consultation - pre-existing agreements
- Collective redundancies - appropriate representatives
- Information and consultation - valid employee requests
Pay, benefits and allowances
Allowances and financial assistance
- Reserve forces - requirements for financial assistance claim
- Reserve forces - awards to employers
- Jurors' allowances - loss of earnings
- Jurors' allowances - subsistence
- Jurors' allowances - travel
Pay levels
- National minimum wage
- National insurance lower earnings limit
- National Joint Council for Local Government Services pay spine
Pay statements
Pensions
Statutory payments
- Statutory sick pay (SSP)
- Statutory adoption pay
- Statutory paternity pay
- National insurance lower earnings limit
- Statutory shared parental pay
- Statutory parental bereavement pay
- Statutory maternity pay (SMP)
- National Joint Council for Local Government Services pay spine
- Maternity allowance
- Itemised pay statement - what must be included
- Reserve forces - requirements for financial assistance claim
- Reserve forces - awards to employers
- Jurors' allowances - loss of earnings
- Jurors' allowances - subsistence
- Jurors' allowances - travel
Personal data
Qualifying criteria for statutory rights
- Statutory rights available to workers/employees/employee shareholders
- Statutory rights with no qualifying period
- Qualifying periods for statutory rights
- Agency Workers Regulations - breaks that pause the 12-week qualifying period
Record-keeping
Religion and belief
- Accommodating religious observance - dietary restrictions
- Accommodating religious observance - clothing/appearance
- Accommodating religious observance - bereavement
- Accommodating religious observance - prayer/worship
Right to request flexible working
- Flexible working requests - permissible reasons for rejection
- Flexible working requests - required contents
- Flexible working requests - contract variation
Termination of employment
Insolvency
Notice of termination
Redundancy
- Maximum amount of a week's pay
- Statutory redundancy payments ready reckoner
- Enhanced redundancy payments
- Collective redundancies - duty to consult representatives
- Collective redundancies - appropriate representatives
- Relevant date for the purposes of redundancy
- Calculation of a week's pay
Unfair dismissal
- Maximum amount of a week's pay
- Unfair dismissal compensation
- Maximum unfair dismissal compensation award - historical data
- Automatically unfair reasons for selection for redundancy
- Automatically unfair reasons for dismissal
- Potentially fair reasons for dismissal
- Effective date of termination
- Calculation of a week's pay
- Relevant date for the purposes of redundancy
Training and development
Transfer of undertakings
Useful contact details for HR
Working time and time off work
Time off work
- Statutory annual leave
- Statutory rights to time off work
- Time off for public duties
- Time off for dependants
- Time off during redundancy notice
Working hours and rest periods
- What is included in working time
- Rest breaks
- Daily rest periods
- Maximum working week
- Weekly rest periods
Written statement of terms and conditions of employment
- Written statement of terms and conditions of employment - the principal statement
- Written statement of terms and conditions of employment - further information
- Written statement of terms and conditions of employment - note on discipline and grievances
