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Find a job
Search and apply for full or part-time jobs in Great Britain.
Work Choice
Work Choice has closed for new applications. If you’re already on Work Choice you’ll keep getting support.
Co-operate with the official receiver after your company has been liquidated
You must help the official receiver (OR) when the company you’re a director of is wound up (liquidated) as a result of insolvency.
Agricultural Sick Pay
Agricultural Sick Pay (ASP) means you’re paid at least the Agricultural Minimum Wage when you’re off work sick. It includes any Statutory Sick Pay you might be entitled to. You only have the right to Agricultural Sick Pay if you were employed before the rules changed on 1 October 2013 and it says so in your contract.
Agricultural workers' rights
Contents - Overview - What counts as an agricultural worker - Pay and overtime - Grades and categories - Agricultural tenancies - Gangmasters - Changes to employment terms and conditions
Calculate your agricultural worker holiday entitlement
Work out how much statutory holiday leave you’re entitled to as an agricultural worker.
Employee rights when on leave
Employee rights aren’t usually affected when they take maternity, paternity, adoption or parental leave and some employees can work up to 10 paid days during their leave.
Employing someone to work in your home
You’re usually considered the employer of a nanny, housekeeper, gardener or anyone else who works in your home if both: - you hire them - they’re not self-employed or paid through an agency
Appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT)
Contents - Overview - How to appeal - The tribunal hearing - If you lose your case - Legislation and previous decisions
Being taken to an employment tribunal
Contents - Overview - Before the hearing - At the hearing - If you lose the case - If you disagree with a tribunal decision - Legislation
Make a claim to an employment tribunal
Contents - When you can claim - Make a claim - After you make a claim - Going to a tribunal hearing - If you win your case - If you lose your case - Get a refund for tribunal fees - Legislation
Looking for work if you're disabled
Contents - Looking for a job - Applying for a job
Reasonable adjustments for workers with disabilities or health conditions
Employers must make reasonable adjustments to make sure workers with disabilities, or physical or mental health conditions, aren’t substantially disadvantaged when doing their jobs.
Recruitment and disabled people
Contents - Job specifications - Encouraging applications - Reasonable adjustments
Holiday entitlement
Contents - Entitlement - Holiday pay: the basics - Calculate leave entitlement - Booking time off - Taking holiday before leaving a job
Maximum weekly working hours
You can’t work more than 48 hours a week on average - normally averaged over 17 weeks. This law is sometimes called the ‘working time directive’ or ‘working time regulations’.
Calculate your employee's statutory redundancy pay
Calculate an employee’s statutory redundancy pay.
Apply for financial help for an employee tax refund
You can ask HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for financial help if you need to give an employee a tax refund and can’t pay for it yourself.
Tell HMRC about an employee's company car
You need to tell HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) if you make any cars available for private use by company directors or employees.
Advertise a job
Advertise and manage your vacancies on the ‘Find a job’ service.
Advertise an internship
Use the Graduate Talent Pool to advertise internships to new and recent graduates. The adverts are free.
Check if a document allows someone to work in the UK
Use this service to find out: - which types of document give someone the right to work in the UK - what a right to work check involves for each of them
Checking a job applicant's right to work documents
You must check that a job applicant is allowed to work for you in the UK before you employ them.
Checks employers can make on job applicants
Employers might need to run certain checks on job applicants. They always need to make sure new employees are allowed to work in the UK.
DBS update service
The online Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) update service allows: - applicants to keep their DBS certificates up to date - employers to check a DBS certificate
Employ someone: step by step
Check what you need to do to employ someone to work for you.
Employers' liability insurance
You must get Employers’ Liability (EL) insurance as soon as you become an employer - your policy must cover you for at least £5 million and come from an authorised insurer.
Find a DBS umbrella body company
Search for companies that can do Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks on behalf of your business or organisation (formerly Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks)
Get your business ready to employ staff: step by step
Check what you need to do as an employer before you can take on staff.
Jobcentre Plus help for recruiters
Jobcentre Plus has a range of recruitment services that can help you as an employer. You could get: - recruitment advice, including specialist support for businesses - help setting up work trials to give you the opportunity to try out potential recruits - support from other employment schemes, including Work Clubs and help with work experience
Penalties for employing illegal workers
You can be sent to jail for 5 years and pay an unlimited fine if you’re found guilty of employing someone who you knew or had ‘reasonable cause to believe’ didn’t have the right to work in the UK.
Use the Employer Checking Service
You may need to ask the Home Office to check an employee’s or potential employee’s immigration status if: - they can’t show you their documents, eg they have an outstanding appeal or application with the Home Office - they have an Application Registration Card - they have a Certificate of Application
View a job applicant's right to work details
Check details of a job applicant’s right to work in the UK, including: - the types of work they’re allowed to do - how long they can work in the UK for, if there’s a time limit
Training and study at work: your rights
Contents - Who can and can't ask for time off to train - Asking for time off - Employer's decision and responsibilities - Appealing the decision
Your rights if your employer is insolvent
Your employer is insolvent if it cannot pay its debts. They might: - make you redundant - ask you to keep working - transfer you to a new employer (if the business has been sold)
Contact Jobcentre Plus
You can contact Jobcentre Plus about: - new benefit claims - existing benefit claims - changing or cancelling an appointment
Criminal record checks when you apply for a role
Contents - Who can check your criminal record - Application process
Find an internship
Use the Graduate Talent Pool to find an internship if you’re a new or recent graduate.
Prove your right to work to an employer
Share details of your right to work in the UK
Register for alerts about careers in international organisations
You can get email alerts for jobs in international organisations, eg the European institutions and United Nations.
Request a basic DBS check
Apply for a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check to get a copy of your criminal record. This is called ‘basic disclosure’. It’s available for people living or working in England and Wales.
Claim for loss of notice pay
Use this service to claim money if your employer is insolvent and you have not been paid for your notice period (‘statutory notice pay’). This includes if you did not work your notice period.
Claim for redundancy and monies owed
You can claim money (eg redundancy pay, wages you’re owed, holiday pay) if you’ve lost your job because your employer has been made insolvent.
Raise a grievance at work
If you’re a worker and you’ve tried solving a problem or concern informally by talking to your manager but you’re not satisfied, you can make a formal grievance complaint in writing.
Workplace pensions
Contents - About workplace pensions - Joining a workplace pension - What you, your employer and the government pay - Protection for your pension - Managing your pension - Changing jobs and taking leave - If you want to leave your workplace pension scheme - Get help