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Grievance procedures and the employment contract
How to communicate your grievance procedure and whether or not to make it contractual.
Health and safety of pregnant workers
Employers' additional health and safety obligations towards pregnant workers and female workers of childbearing age.
Medical suspension on maternity grounds
When an employee who is pregnant, or has recently given birth, or who is breast-feeding may have to be suspended from work on maternity grounds.
Appeals against grievance decisions
What an employer can do when an employee appeals against the decision of the first grievance hearing.
Writing your grievance procedure
A grievance procedure deals with grievances in a fair and reasonable manner.
Breastfeeding and the workplace
How employers can support employees to continue breastfeeding on their return to work after maternity leave.
Holding a grievance hearing
How to run a grievance hearing, informing the employee of its outcome and dealing with delays.
Staff security: employer responsibilities
Ensure your workers' safety and security by assessing the potential risks.
Pay: employer obligations
Understand your legal obligations as an employer when paying your staff.
Paying workers holiday pay
Employees' entitlement to paid annual leave.
Employee representatives during collective redundancy situations
Consulting employee representatives when you are planning to make 20 or more employees redundant.
Employee representatives during business transfers
Consulting employee representatives when employees are transferring from one employer to another.
Pension representatives
Consulting employee representatives on pension matters.
Recruiting people from outside the UK
Guidance for employers on what you need to do when hiring workers from outside the UK including sponsor licences.
Employment-protection rights for employee representatives
What employee representatives are entitled to do and have, and what may happen if you deny them these entitlements.
Ongoing consultation on health and safety matters
Representatives of employee safety and their employment rights.
Ongoing information and consultation arrangements
Representatives for negotiating and running national and transnational information and consultation arrangements.
Working effectively with employee representatives
Working with employee representatives to improve business performance and avoid disputes.
Representation for workforce agreements
Negotiating with employees on working hours, parental leave, and the use of successive fixed-term contracts.
Pregnant workers, dismissal and discrimination
How employers can ensure they stay on the right side of sex discrimination law and appropriately support pregnant workers.