Getting help
Apart from the CAB (Citizens Advice Bureau) and the Law Centres, you can take advantage of several other sources of help: Advisory, Conciliation, and Arbitration Service (ACAS) can give advice...
Taking a case against your boss
You may want to take a case against your employer for many reasons. Unfair dismissal is just one of them, but it’s one of the most common. Others include: Not...
Redundancy
When you’re made redundant, you’re dismissed because your employer’s need for employees to do a particular kind of work is reduced or no longer exists. The employer may be moving...
Making a complaint
Your employer has to have a grievance procedure in place, which sets out how you can go about making a complaint about some aspect of your working conditions. Amongst the...
Going through the disciplinary procedures
Every employer has to have a written disciplinary procedure, and you should have details of it in your Written Statement of Employment Particulars, or the statement should point you to...
Being Fired
Being fired is probably not something you want to contemplate, and the law does protect you from employers who simply decide your face no longer fits. Many dismissals are automatically...
Accepting the contract
Employers usually decide which applicant they want to employ and phone up with a job offer later that day. From the minute that offer is made and accepted by you,...
Your Basic Rights at Work
Over the past couple of years, the law has given employees increased rights. Some rights, such as the right to not be discriminated against, you have from the minute you...
Employment Contracts and Terms and Conditions
Each employer must abide by the laws and legislation that give you your rights at work, you may have other rights which will be set out in your employment contract....