Workline UK has been offering free advice on essential topics relating to employment law and contracts since 2006. Lesley Furber is the Manager and Lead Advisor for Workline.
Workline UK has been offering free advice on essential topics relating to employment law and contracts since 2006. Lesley Furber is the Manager and Lead Advisor for Workline.
Workline UK was funded for 2.5 years by the UK Film Council and Skillset, to provide free employment advice to those working in the UK Film and TV Industries. From 2009 to October 2025 Workline was hosted on the Crunch website to offer this service to a wider audience. You can see all our most important Workline articles below.Â
Here are links to our most popular, and regularly updated, employment law related articles:
- Am I an employee, self-employed or a worker? (your status)
- What employment status do you have – your contract may not provide the answer
- The Uber Tribunal – full details
- CitySprint worker decision
- Excel Bicycle Courier a worker (April 2017)
- Who can have self-employed status in the film, TV and production industries?
- Your legal status and IR35
- How to make your contracts IR35-proof
- How Peter Stringfellow clarified employment law
- Working out if you are an Intermediary
- Using an Umbrella Company
- Guide to Internships
- Volunteers and Voluntary Workers
- Guide to Apprenticeships
- The Modern Slavery Bill 2015
- What are my main employment rights?
- Written statement and contracts
- Checking a person’s legal right to work in the UK
- Fluent English Language requirements for Public Sector Workers
- Fixed Term Contracts – what are they and how do they come to an end
- Part-Time Workers Rights
- Continuity of Service – what does it mean?
- What are Zero Hours contracts?
- Trust and Confidence – what does it mean?
- Custom and Practice, implied and express contractual terms
- All about References
- Workplace Surveillance
- Social Networking and Work ……
- Predictable terms and conditions Regulations are NOT coming in 2024
- An animal is for life, but can you take them to work?
- The Working Time Regulations – holidays and rest breaks
- Travel Time can be Working Time, September 2015
- Interrupted Rest Breaks……
- How to avoid confusion when calculating holiday pay
- Guide to Maternity Leave and Maternity pay
- Extension of Redundancy Protection for employees who are pregnant or returning from family leave from 6th April 2024
- Guide to Adoption Leave and pay
- Parental Leave
- Paternity Leave and Pay – 2025 update
- Shared Parental Leave (available from 2015)
- Carers Leave (available from April 2024)
- Neonatal Care Leave and Pay (available from April 2025)
- The Right to request flexible working
- The Right to request training
- Flexible Working – April 2024 changes
- Love and Relationships at Work?
- Time off for Dependants
- Parental Bereavement Leave
- Taking Animals to work (2023)
- Hybrid Working (2023)
- The Minimum Wage and Overtime
- Pay and Wages, Pay Cuts, Unauthorised Deductions to Pay and ACAS Guide to Pay and Wages for small firms
- Tips must be allocated and paid to staff from 1st October 2024
- Direct Earnings Attachments
- Sleeping on the Job
- Workplace Sweepstakes, the law
- The HR Kiosk Guide to Pensions Auto-Enrolment and Retirement
- SSP, Sickness and Fit Notes
- Holiday Entitlement and Sick Leave
- Sending employees and Contractors abroad – the travel risks and business customs you need to be aware of
- Pre-Termination Negotiations and Settlement Agreements
- Without Prejudice Rules
- How your Employment can come to an end
- Dismissed while Working Abroad
- Dismissals because of your Political Opinions
- Short-time working and lay-offs
- Guide to Redundancy, a redundancy occurs when making a full-time job part-time, offering alternative jobs
- Large Scale Dismissals (updated 2023)
- Employment Tribunals
- Finding details of Employment Tribunal Cases
- Whistle-blowing
- Bribery Act 2010
- Disciplinary and Dismissal Procedures
- Acas pubish new Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance, March 2015
- Disciplinary procedures – common mistakes made by Employer
- Grievance Procedures
- Discrimination – the Equality Act 2010
- The Equality Act updates April 2024
- ACAS Discrimination Guides August 2015
- and Disability Discrimination in more detail
- Is Obesity a Disability, the ECJ’s decision in December 2014
- Third Party Harassment provisions repealed
- Workplace Sexual Harassment – new laws from 26th October 2024
- Equal Pay, Gender Pay Gap Reporting, Executive Pay Gap Reporting, Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting.Â
- Dress Codes and Grooming Policy
- What Languages should be spoken at work?
- Small Business Owners – a guide to the documents you need when employing staff
- Problems with recruitment and retention – look at the whole picture
- Small Business Owners, how to attract and work well with freelancers
- How to deal with an Acas conciilation request
- Should Employers Fear the Christmas Party? and Misconduct outside the workplace
- Misconduct inside the workplace
- Employment Law in United Kingdom – what differences are there?
- Brexit – the House of Commons library publish information on the implications of Brexit on Uk employment law
