10 Employee Rights You Should Know
Understanding your rights as an employee is important but are you clued up on what the 10 most important are?
Manak Solicitors have created a 10-point guide to employee rights, to help you understand what the 10 most important rights are.
The guide contains up-to-date guidelines, such as
A look at the 10 most important rights employees should know about (e.g. statutory sick pay, flexible working, parental leave, and rights under the Equality Act of 2010)
A good overview of each employee’s rights, including key summaries, limitations and exemptions, and important facts and figures.
Understanding employee rights during COVID-19: information on the job retention scheme and government grants and benefit schemes to help support workers during the pandemic.
Their research found that:
Over half of the adults (54%) living in Greater London – home to over nine million people – report experiencing discrimination at work or when applying for work. That's well above the UK average of 36%.
Whilst 22.7 million people in the UK work full time, around 8.4 million employees work part-time – and the UK has some of the most diverse ranges of working arrangements in Europe.
You can get £96.35 per week Statutory Sick Pay ( SSP ) if you're too ill to work. It's paid by your employer for up to 28 weeks.
To see the full guide, head over to their website.
