Workline UK
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 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. Since 2009 Workline has been hosted on the FreelanceAdvisor website and now on the Crunch website to offer this service to a wider audience. You can see all our most important Workline articles below.
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
- 2015 Office of Tax Simplification report on Employment Status
- HMRC announce new unit to investigate the gig economy
- 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
- What is a Contractor?
- Freelancers/Contractors – what to do if a Client cancels your contract
- How Peter Stringfellow clarified employment law
- New ‘False’ Self-Employment Bill and Reporting requirements from 2015 and Working out if you are an Intermediary
- Using an Umbrella Company
- Guide to Internships
- Volunteers and Voluntary Workers and if Volunteers are covered by Discrimination Laws
- Guide to Apprenticeships
- Employing School Leavers – changes in the law
- The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and Portable Criminal Records checks
- Government Summer 2015 Consultation on everything!
- The Modern Slavery Bill 2015
- What are my main employment rights?
- Written statement and contracts
- Employee Shareholders Contracts
- Checking a person’s legal right to work in the UK
- How to secure a Visa for an overseas worker
- Immigration Skills Charge
- Fluent English Language requirements for Public Sector Workers
- Probationary Periods explained …….
- Fixed Term Contracts – what are they and how do they come to an end
- Part-Time Workers Rights
- Military Reservists Employment Rights
- Sunday Working – what are the rules
- 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
- Taking a Second Job
- All about References – Part 1 and Part 2……
- Workplace Surveillance
- Social Networking and Work ……
- The Trade Union Bill 2016
- The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA)
- 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
- Goods Vehicle Drivers Hours Part 1 and Part 2
- Guide to Maternity Leave and Maternity pay
- Guide to Adoption Leave and pay
- Antenatal leave and adoption appointments
- Parental Leave
- Paternity Leave and Pay
- Shared Parental Leave (available from 2015)
- Technical Guide to Shared Parental Leave from BIS 2015
- The Right to request flexible working and request training
- Love and Relationships at Work?
- Time off for Dependants
- Parental Bereavement Leave
- The Minimum Wage and Overtime
- Pay and Wages, Pay Cuts, Unauthorised Deductions to Pay and ACAS Guide to Pay and Wages for small firms
- The New National Living Wage from 2016
- Direct Earnings Attachments
- Sleeping on the Job
- Being Overpaid
- Bonus Schemes
- Workplace Sweepstakes, the law
- The HR Kiosk Guide to Pensions Auto-Enrolment and Retirement
- Pensions Auto-enrollment
- Our 2013 Guide to Retirement
- SSP, Sickness and Fit Notes
- End of the SSP Percentage Threshold Scheme
- The March 2015 Drug Driving Regulations
- Holiday Entitlement and Sick Leave
- 2015 Fit for Work update
- Health and Safety – RIDDOR and Personal Injury claims at work
- Guide to Lone-Working 2016
- Sending employees and Contractors abroad – the travel risks and business customs you need to be aware of
- E-Cigarettes at work
- Health and Safety Laws for the Self-Employed changed on 1st October 2015
- The Agency Workers Regulations in detail
- AWR – end-hirer liable to pay underpayment of salary
- AWR Employment Tribunal cases
- Agency Workers regulations may not cover workers on ‘indefinite’ assignments
- Can an Agency worker ever become permanent?
- Swedish Derogation Model
- The Conduct of Employment Agencies Regulations
- Can a Limited Company Contractor be in scope of the Agency Workers Regulations?
- Pre-Termination Negotiations and Settlement Agreements
- Without Prejudice Rules
- How your Employment can come to an end
- Taxation of Termination Payments – changes in April 2018
- Dismissed while Working Abroad
- Dismissals because of your Political Opinions
- Short-time working and lay-offs
- *Guide to Redundancy, * when redundancies can be made, offering alternative jobs
- Large Scale Dismissals/Changing Contract terms
- Employment Tribunals
- Finding details of Employment Tribunal Cases
- Whistle-blowing
- Your boss/client asks you to do something illegal, what should you do?
- Bribery Act 2010
- TUPE
- Disciplinary and Dismissal Procedures
- Acas pubish new Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance, March 2015
- can you audio-record disciplinaries
- Disciplinary procedures – common mistakes made by Employer
- Grievance Procedures
- Discrimination – the Equality Act 2010
- ACAS Discrimination Guides August 2015
- Limited Company Contractors not always protected under the Equality Act
- What is Religious Discrimination
- and Disability Discrimination in more detail
- Is Obesity a Disability, the ECJ’s decision in December 2014
- Third Party Harassment provisions repealed
- Information on 3rd party harassment, Prevention of Harassment Act
- Equal Pay
- Dress Codes and Grooming Policy
- What Languages should be spoken at work?
- Gender Pay Gap Reporting
- 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
- Motivating your Staff Part 1, The Employee Experience and Motivating your Staff Part 2
- How to deal with an Acas conciilation request
- Should Employers Fear the Christmas Party? Misconduct outside the workplace
- Misconduct inside the workplace
- Employment Law in United Kingdom – what differences are there?
- What would Employment Law in the UK be like without Europe?
- Brexit – the House of Commons library publish information on the implications of Brexit on Uk employment law
