Work and redundancy

Advice on understanding your employment rights, what in-work benefits you might be entitled to and how to handle redundancy

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Employment basics

Help with applying for a job, your rights at work and how you’re taxed and paid.

  1. Changing your career following redundancy
  2. Employment contracts: your employee rights explained
  3. Apprenticeships explained
  4. Help and advice when applying for a job
  5. Understanding your payslip
  6. How you get paid at work
  1. Income Tax and National Insurance
  2. Tax and National Insurance deductions
  3. Second job tax and pay
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Redundancy

Help with making a redundancy plan, benefits you can claim, and your legal rights.

  1. Managing money if your job is at risk
  2. Redundancy pay calculator
  3. Redundancy pay
  4. Changing your career following redundancy
  5. Claiming your tax rebate after losing your job
  6. Out of work checklist – things to do if you lose your job
  1. Review your budget after a drop in income
  2. Making the most of your redundancy pay
  3. Benefits and tax credits when you’ve lost your job
  4. What to do about debt if you lose your job
  5. Your pension options if you’re made redundant
  6. Do you have to pay tax on your redundancy pay?
  7. Top tips for making money when faced with job loss
  8. Can you insure yourself against redundancy?
  9. Working reduced hours as an alternative to redundancy
  10. Your legal rights when facing redundancy
  11. Unfair dismissal versus redundancy
  12. Voluntary redundancy
  13. Early retirement
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Benefits at work

Learn about employee benefits, salary sacrifice schemes and benefits and tax credits you can claim after job loss.

  1. Benefits and tax credits when you’ve lost your job
  2. Pay and benefits for temps and agency workers
  3. Working Tax Credit
  4. Cars, insurance and other employee benefits
  5. What is a salary sacrifice scheme?
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Self-employment

Advice on starting your own business, including tax and insurance when you’re self-employed.

  1. Personal insurance when you’re self-employed
  2. Business insurance when you’re self employed
  3. Thinking of starting up in business?
  4. Tax and National Insurance when you're self-employed
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