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Homepage  >  HR Resources  >   Employment Law FAQs

Employment law FAQs

These Frequently Asked Questions cover a range of popular employment law topics. Each question and answer looks at a particular aspect of the law. The FAQs are updated on a regular basis and are for CIPD members only. The date on each FAQ will tell you when it was last updated.

For more legal resources, go to our Employment Law at Work area.

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FAQ categories

  • Absence management

  • Age discrimination and retirement

  • Bank holidays

  • Data protection, surveillance and privacy at work

  • Disability discrimination

  • Discipline and grievance procedures

  • Discrimination

  • Employee status

  • Equal pay

  • Fixed-term work

  • Flexible working, parental rights and family-friendly provisions

  • Maternity, paternity and adoption leave and pay

  • Part-time work

  • Race discrimination

  • Redundancy

  • References

  • Religious discrimination

  • Reserve forces

  • Sex discrimination

  • Sexual orientation discrimination

  • Stress

  • Temporary workers

  • Terms and conditions of employment

  • Trade union recognition and industrial action

  • Transfer of undertakings (TUPE)

  • Tribunal claims, settlement and compromise

  • Unfair dismissal

  • Whistleblowing

  • Working Time Regulations

  • Wrongful dismissal

 
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