Employment Law FAQ

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Can My Employer Change My Contract?
What Are My Rights As A Part-Time Employee?
Am I Entitled To Bank Holidays?
How Long Can An Employer Keep Me On A Temporary Contract?
Am I Entitled to a Pay Slip?
Is My Employer Allowed To Make Deductions From My Pay?
Is Everyone Entitled To Paid Holidays?
Can I be sacked for refusing to carry out an instruction?
How Long Must I Work Before I Can Complain Of Unfair Dismissall?
Am I entitled to receive warnings before I am dismissed?
How much notice must be given to end my employment?
Can I be represented in a disciplinary or grievance hearing?
Does the DDA cover people who are not disabled?
Do I qualify as a disabled person under the DDA?
Am I a disabled person under the DDA?
The definition of disability
Past disability
Severe disfigurement
The DDA does not include
Who decides?
Can I Take Maternity Leave?
Can I Get Maternity Pay?
Maternity Allowance (MA)
Am I Protected From Dismissal Or Detriment During Maternity?
Can I Return To My Job After Maternity Leave With All My Service Rights?
Am I Entitled to Ante-Natal Care and/or Health & Safety Protection Ante Natal Care?
Can I Take Time Off To Look After A Dependant?
What Rights Do I Have to Parental Leave?
Can I Take Paid Adoption Leave?
Can I Take Paid Paternity Leave?
Can I Take Paid Paternity Leave If I Adopt A Child?
What is direct racial discrimination?
What is indirect racial discrimination?
What is victimisation?
What is harassment?
What is the notice entitlement?
I want to dismiss an employee today without notice, can I?
An employee is suffering from depression, I want to sack him as it effects staff moral?
There are Union trouble makers in my company and I want to make them Redundant?
How can a contract be varied?
I want to change the working hours of employees contracts this month?
We sacked someone 2 months ago and now they want to invoke the grievance procedure and appeal against the dismissal, can they do this?