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Employment Rights
In the list below are comprehensive guides and advice on the statutory employment rights that relate to worklife balance. However, these rights set limits on the very least an employer can provide without breaking the law.
Employees may also have contractual rights better than state minimums which provide better cover. These additional rights are gained, in the main, through agreements unions have negotiated with employers.
Unions and employers must work jointly to develop effective, sustainable worklife initiatives and contractual agreements that extend the minimum statutory rights.
TUC
- Working life and family-friendly policies
- Working hours, holidays, breaks and leave
- Flexible working for parents
- Time off for families [pdf]
- Time's up for long hours
- Your rights as a homeworker [pdf]
- Part-time workers
- Right to request
flexible working
- TUC protect yourself at work guide
- TUC Guide to Equality Law 2011 [pdf]
Directgov – information from the UK Government
- Flexible working and work-life balance
- Working time regulations
- Part time work
- Working when pregnant
- Maternity leave
- Parental leave
- Adoption leave and pay
- Time off for dependants (compassionate leave)
- Time off for public duties
- Maternity pay
- Paternity pay
- Age discrimination
- Child care
Department for Business and Regulatory Reform
Tailored interactive guidance on employment rights - Personalised help on employment rights
- Guide on the statutory right to request flexible working
- Interactive guide to discover flexible working patterns
- Guide to establish your maternity, paternity and adoption rights
Businesslink
Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Flexible working: your rights [PDF]
- Family friendly working
- FWorking hours, flexible working and time off
- Part-time workers regulations
- Parental, paternity and adoption leave
- Gender equality duty
CWU
PCS
UNISON
Usdaw
Hazards
Labour Research Department (priced publications)
- Law at Work 2011
- Working time regulations - a guide for union reps
- Working parents - a guide to the new rights.
- Work-life balance - a negotiator's guide
Working families
The most recent documents available on this subject are:
A practical reference work in one volume for all union repsThis manual provides practical advice for trade union workplace reps on issues they are likely to encounter in dealing with a range of problems that can arise in the workplace.
There are still places available on this term's stage 2 online courses for all types of union reps.
A guide to the Agency Worker Regulations 2010
PDF version available for downloadLearn about types of workers, employment status, your basic rights, how to enforce your workplace rights, video introductions to the enforcement agencies, a full length enforcement guide and how to join a union.
Government plans to extend the qualifying period for protection against unfair dismissal from one year to two will affect nearly three million workers, the TUC says today (Tuesday) in its submission to the government's review of the employment tribun...
Commenting on government proposals to cancel the May Day bank holiday and replace it with a UK Day in October, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: 'There is strong support for an extra public holiday as the UK has the stingiest allocation in E...
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