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Lay-off and short-time working

Author: Fiona Cuming

Updating author: Max Winthrop

Summary

This guide explains the law around lay-off and short-time working, under which an employer can exercise a contractual right to stop or reduce an employee's pay where it has insufficient work for them. The employer must have a contractual right, or the employee's consent, to do this.