Key Employment Rights briefing

10 July 2015

The Government has published a briefing on key employment rights.

It says that the paper “sets out the basic architecture of a range of statutory employment rights and provides links to underpinning legislation. Where relevant, it highlights useful resources and links to more detailed Library briefings”.

The topics covered are;

• agency workers
• blacklisting
• bullying
• criminal convictions
• deduction from wages
• employment tribunal fees
• equality
• family-related leave
• fixed-term employees
• flexible working
• holiday
• industrial action
• insolvency
• national minimum wage
• notice
• part-time workers
• redundancy
• references
• retirement age
• right to guarantee payments for workless days
• statement of initial employment particulars
• statutory sick pay
• unfair dismissal
• whistleblowing
• working time

The briefing is available to download here.