Workplace and Environment

Maternity leave planFemale employees are entitled to take maternity leave and may be entitled to statutory maternity pay where they are expecting a child, provided they comply with important notification requirements.Maternity leave entitlementFemale... Read more

Time to train meeting letterIf an employee submits an application for time to train, you'll need to ensure you properly follow the designated statutory procedure in dealing with it. This starts with arranging a meeting with the employee, for which you... Read more

Dismissal on notice letter due to redundancy letterYou should only use this letter where the employee has been employed for less than two years and you are making less than 20 redundancies within a 90-day period. This is because longer-serving employ... Read more

Permit to work - excavationCarrying out excavation work is potentially dangerous. So to avoid or sufficiently reduce the risks to an acceptable level, use our permit to help you plan the work before it starts.Excavation workThe main dangers of excava... Read more

Redundancy selection assessmentWhen choosing redundancy selection criteria, you need to ensure they're objectively chosen and then fairly applied. Our selection criteria document is aimed at helping you with the first part of this and then our redunda... Read more

Time to train appeal meeting letterWhere you've declined (or only partially accepted) an employee's application for time to train, under the statutory procedure they have a right of appeal. Use our time to train appeal meeting letter if they do decide ... Read more

Time to train application formEligible employees who work in businesses that employ 250 or more employees have a statutory right to request time off for the purposes of study or training.  Our time to train application form will ensure that the empl... Read more

Dismissal on notice due to unsatisfactory performance/conduct letterYou should only use this letter where the employee has short service. This is because longer-serving employees have unfair dismissal rights so they need to be treated entirely differe... Read more