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Help and advice for working people.
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Featured content
Enforcing your workplace rights
A guide for unions and their members to the statutory enforcement agencies
Working time, breaks and holidays
This leaflet explains weekly hours limits and night working limits; and your rights to breaks, rest periods and paid holiday.
Leave and Pay for Fathers and Partners
If you are an expectant father or the partner of someone due to give birth or adopt a child, you could be entitled to time off to attend ante-natal appointments plus up to two weeks’ paid paternity leave. This booklet explains your rights and how they work.
Protection from sexual harassment
You are protected from sexual harassment in the workplace by the Equality Act 2010. This booklet describes the offence, its impact and the rights you have to fight back if it happens.
Common
questions
Can I expect to be paid extra for working overtime?
Whether or not you are paid extra – over and above your normal hourly rate – for overtime worked will depend on your contract terms, although you must be paid at least the National Minimum Wage for all the hours your employer required you to work, including overtime, whatever your written contract document says...
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What should I do if I see something unsafe in the workplace?
Since you have a duty of care to yourself and your work colleagues, you should bring the matter to the attention of your employer and your safety representative. Trade union safety representatives have the right to investigate potential hazards and dangerous occurrences at the workplace and to investigate complaints by any employee they represent...
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