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 and your employee rights explained
  3. Apprenticeships explained
  1. Help and advice when applying for a job
  2. Understanding your payslip
  3. How you get paid at work
  4. How Income Tax, National Insurance and the Personal Allowance works
  5. How much Income Tax and National Insurance you should pay
  6. Second job tax and pay
  7. National Minimum Wage
  8. Scottish Income Tax and National Insurance
  9. Coronavirus – what it means for you and what you’re entitled to
  10. Coronavirus if you’re an employee
  11. Coronavirus if you have children
  12. Employed and furloughed: The coronavirus job retention scheme
  13. Employed, off sick or self-isolating: Claiming Statutory Sick Pay

Tax and your pay

Here are some pages to help you understand how the tax system works and how it affects your pay.

  1. How Income Tax, National Insurance and the Personal Allowance works
  2. How much Income Tax and National Insurance you should pay
  3. Scottish Income Tax and National Insurance
  1. Tax and National Insurance when you're self-employed
  2. Second job tax and pay
  3. How to fill in a Self Assessment tax return
  4. Do you have to pay tax on your redundancy pay?
  5. Benefits and tax credits when you’ve lost your job
  6. Claiming your tax rebate after losing your job
  7. Pay and benefits for temps and agency workers

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

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
  1. Cars, insurance and other employee benefits
  2. What is a salary sacrifice scheme?
  3. Universal Credit if you're self-employed
  4. The benefit cap
  5. Claiming tax credits
  6. Employment contracts and your employee rights explained
  7. National Minimum Wage
  8. Marriage and Married Couple's Allowance

Self-employment

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

  1. How to start a business or become self-employed
  2. Tax and National Insurance when you're self-employed
  3. How to budget for an irregular income
  1. Different kinds of employment status
  2. How to fill in a Self Assessment tax return
  3. Personal insurance when you’re self-employed
  4. Business insurance when you’re self employed
  5. Second job tax and pay
  6. Employment contracts and your employee rights explained
  7. Coronavirus – what it means for you and what you’re entitled to
  8. Help and support for self-employed during and after coronavirus
  9. Coronavirus if you have children
  10. What type of worker are you?: financial help during the coronavirus outbreak
  11. Self-employed: financial help if you’ve lost business income
  12. Self-employed: financial help if you’re sick or self-isolating