Employment Solicitors Vs HR Consultants: When Employers Need Legal Defence
Understand when employers should instruct employment solicitors for workplace disputes, settlement talks and tribunal claims to protect their position.
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Employment Law Guides
Plain-English answers on dismissal, discrimination, settlement agreements and the tribunal process, written with employment law specialists.
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Notice Period: How Much Notice You Must Give and Get
How UK notice periods work for employees and employers: statutory minimums, contract terms, garden leave, pay in lieu and what to do if notice is breached.
The right to be accompanied at work meetings
Your right to be accompanied at disciplinary and grievance hearings: who can come, what they can do, postponing a meeting, and what to do if refused.
Zero hours contract rights: what you are entitled to
Your zero hours contract rights explained: minimum wage, holiday pay, sick pay, working elsewhere, unfair treatment, and the guaranteed hours reforms coming.
Change of contract without consent: your rights and fire and rehire
Can your employer change your contract without consent? Your options if pay, hours or location are changed, fire and rehire rules, and the 2027 changes.
Flexible working requests: your rights explained
How to make a flexible working request, what your employer must do, valid reasons to refuse, what changes in 2027, and what to do if you are turned down.
Ill health dismissal: when it is fair and when it is not
Facing dismissal because of ill health? What your employer must do first, medical evidence, reasonable adjustments, and when you can challenge it.
Dismissed during probation: what rights do you have?
Dismissed during probation? Your notice, pay and discrimination rights, how the 2027 unfair dismissal changes affect you, and when you can claim.
Performance improvement plans: your rights on a PIP
Put on a performance improvement plan? What a fair PIP looks like, red flags of a plan set up to fail, and how to respond to protect your job.
Capability dismissal: your rights and what a fair process looks like
Facing a capability dismissal for performance or ill health? What a fair process looks like, when it becomes unfair, and how to challenge it.
Bank holiday entitlement: your rights explained
No automatic right to bank holidays off or extra pay. How bank holidays fit into your 28 days, part-time workers, working on bank holidays and 2026 dates.
Unlawful deduction from wages: when your employer cannot take your pay
When can an employer deduct from your pay? What counts as an unlawful deduction, the time limits, the two-year backstop and how to claim your money back.