Workers' Rights

Understand your employment rights and responsibilities, including contracts, working hours, pay, discrimination, and how to address workplace concerns constructively.

Maternity Leave Entitlement

Expectant female employees have more rights and benefits than ever, and so it is vital that you are fully aware of what treatment you should expect from your...

Rights for Elderly Employees

As people are living longer they are entitled to work for longer, but in doing so they face a modern workplace which is still rife with ageist attitudes. Wor...

Talk and Act Positively About Equality at Work

For more than three decades, government and employers have worked to improve equality in the UK workplace. Discrimination based on age, race, religion, disab...

The Law and Discrimination in the Workplace

Discrimination is an unsavoury and endemic aspect of working life and laws are in place to protect those employees who feel they are the subject of certain t...

The Lowdown on Paternity Leave

Employee fathers are becoming increasingly willing to equally share in the responsibilities of caring for their newly born offspring, but are employers as ea...