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  • Flexible Working and Working Hours (11 articles)

    Would you like to change your working hours or have more flexibility? Are you unable to make your hours work around childcare? These pages give advice on your right to request flexible working, how to negotiate, a template request letter, what to do if your request is refused and much more.

  • Pregnancy and Maternity (4 categories)

    Your rights during pregnancy and maternity leave, including returning to work and discrimination.

  • Family Leave and Pay (5 categories)

    Understand your rights to leave and pay for fathers and non-birth partners, for those adopting or having a baby through surrogacy, LGBTQ parents and for parents of babies who require neonatal care within 28 days of birth.

  • Changes to Your Employment Terms and Fire and Rehire (4 articles)

    Has your employer tried to change your working hours, days or location without your consent? Is your employer saying they will have to dismiss you unless you agree to the changes (fire and rehire)? Here is our advice on how to deal with imposed changes.

  • Childcare Support (11 articles)

    Find out more about accessing financial support for childcare.

  • Discrimination as a Parent/Carer (8 articles)

    Understand what to do if you have been treated unfavourably because you are pregnant, have a new baby, are caring for a dependant or exercised one of your statutory parental rights.

  • General Advice on Your Rights at Work (7 categories)

    Your rights at work can vary hugely depending on your employment status and whether you are an employee, a worker or if you're self employed. 

  • Employment Tribunals and Bringing a Claim (6 categories)

    Resources for bringing an employment tribunal claim, including what you need to know before bringing a claim, the key steps, getting information from your employer, negotiating a settlement and examples of claims.

  • Parents and carers of dependants with a disability (6 articles)

    Information and resources for people who work or wish to work and have caring responsibilities for dependants with a disability. You might also want to visit the Contact website for further advice and support for families about raising a child with additional needs.

  • Redundancy, Restructuring and TUPE transfer (9 articles)

    Are you facing redundancy? Is your employer restructuring the business? Have you been made redundant whilst on or shortly after maternity leave? Is your job being TUPE-transferred?

  • Time Off for Parents and Carers (9 articles)

    Information on rights to take Time off for Dependants, unpaid Parental Leave and Parental Bereavement Leave for parents and carers.

  • Template letters and downloadable resources (1 articles)

    Within our advice pages there are several template letters for you to adapt, along with factsheets of information that you can download. We have added them all to this page to make them easily accessible.