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Working time and time off policies
Polices covering leave and absence, working hours, and overtime.
Advantages of employment policies
Why it’s beneficial to have employment policies in place in your business.
Estimate your rate bill
Get an indication of how much your business rates bill could be for 2024-25.
Employing workers of compulsory school age
Understand the law concerning breaks, conditions and pay for workers of compulsory school age.
Application for flexible working
Information an employee must provide when making a flexible working request.
Types of flexible working
Different types of flexible working, such as part-time work, flexi-time, zero-hour contracts, and job sharing.
Access free exporting training courses through the UK Export Academy
Department for Business and Trade offer free courses for Northern Ireland exporters.
Menstruation, menstrual health and menopause in the workplace
How employers can provide support around menstruation, menstrual health, and menopause to women in the workplace.
Flexible working: extensions to time limits and withdrawals
Extending the time limit to decide on a flexible working request.
Menstruation and menstrual health support in the workplace
Practical steps employers can take to provide support around menstrual health-related symptoms and conditions in the workplace.
Flexible working refusal: employee's appeal
How an employee should request an appeal if their flexible working request is refused and how an employer must deal with that request.
Reaching a decision on a flexible working request
Accepting and refusing an employee's request and trial periods.
Refusing a flexible working request
Reasons employers may refuse a flexible working request and how this must be communicated to the employee.
Promoting flexible working - Advanced Electronic Solutions (video)
Paul Creighton, director of Advanced Electronic Solutions (AES), talks about how the company introduced and benefited from flexible working practices.
Recognising and derecognising a trade union
What a trade union is, how it applies for recognition, and how it operates.
Flexible working: employee protection against dismissal and discrimination
An employee's protection against detrimental treatment and dismissal in relation to their flexible working request.
Statutory recognition of a trade union - starting the procedure
How trade unions can obtain statutory recognition.
Meaning and types of trade union recognition
A summary of voluntary and statutory recognition, and what recognition means for both the employer and the union.
The consequences of trade union recognition
What an employer and union must do once the union has become recognised.
Consultation | Minimum wage rates from April 2025 and beyond
Have your say on how proposed increases to the minimum wage rates from April 2025 may impact your business and workers.