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

Directgov – information from the UK Government

Department for Business and Regulatory Reform

Tailored interactive guidance on employment rights - Personalised help on employment rights

Businesslink

ACAS

Equality and Human Rights Commission

CWU

PCS

UNISON

Usdaw

Hazards

Labour Research Department (priced publications)

Working families


The most recent documents available on this subject are:

‘Making it easier to sack people is the last thing we need', says TUC

Commenting on the announcement today (Tuesday) that the government is to reduce the minimum redundancy consultation period and remove the right to redundancy from employees on fixed-term contracts, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

18 December 2012
Rights for Interns App

The TUC Rights for Interns app has been produced by the TUC to provide interns with a convenient and accessible way of assessing the quality information about their employment rights.

6 December 2012
Chancellor's small business exemption plans unlikely to have much impact

Commenting on new proposals for small businesses in the Chancellor's speech to the Conservative Party conference today (Monday, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

8 October 2012
Dealing with dismissal and 'no fault dismissal' for micro businesses

The TUC is fundamentally opposed to the introduction of no fault dismissals which would generate a 'hire and fire culture' in the UK..

PDF version available for download
8 June 2012
Beecroft proposals would create “one in five second class citizens at work in our region”, says Northern TUC

More than three million people working in small companies with fewer than 10 staff, or one in five of the north east's working population will be turned into second-class citizens if government supporters of the Beecroft report get their way, accordi...

31 May 2012
Queen's Speech reaction from the TUC

Commenting today (Wednesday) on the Queen's Speech, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: "We needed a programme for growth, instead we have an incoherent hotchpotch that will do little or nothing to deal with our fundamental economic problem...

9 May 2012



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