Greater Manchester Pay and Employment Rights Advice Service, previously known as Greater Manchester Low Pay Unit, produces a comprehensive range of factsheets about employment rights (external website). These include:
- Adoptive parents rights to leave and pay
- Age Discrimination
- Basic rights at work and length of service required
- Children and employment
- Claiming redundancy if you are laid off or on short-time working
- Contracts of employment
- Deductions from wages
- Disability at work
- Disability and Dismissal Procedures
- Dismissal for sickness
- Equal pay
- Fixed-term employees
- Flexible Working for Parents
- Grievance Procedures
- Having a baby, your rights at work
- Holidays
- Hours and breaks
- Lay off and short time working
- National minimum wage
- Notice of termination of employment
- Parental leave
- Time off for dependants
- Part-time workers
- Paternity leave and pay
- Race discrimination
- Redundancy
- Right to request flexible working
- Self employment
- Sex discrimination
- Sexual orientation discrimination
- Stakeholder pensions
- Statutory Sick Pay
- Sunday Trading Act
- Sumary of Employment Rights
- Unfair Dismissal
- Young workers (16 & 17), rights at work
Note: all these factsheets are pdfs and you will need Adobe Acrobat to read them. You can download Adobe Acrobat free (external website).
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Information Provider:
Manchester Advice
Date Reviewed:
21 January 2010
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