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Consumer contract rules to protect consumers from automatically paying for additional services and goods, and costly telephone helpline charges.

Exemptions to the rules about working hours, rest breaks, and rest periods for workers who choose their hours.

The breaks workers are entitled to take during working hours and between working days, depending on their employment status.

Understand the limit of working hours in an average week.

The rules about working hours and how employers can best manage them.

Understand the law concerning breaks, conditions and pay for workers of compulsory school age.

Overview of the law relating to young workers at different stages of their lives.

What an employer can do when an employee appeals against the decision of the first grievance hearing.

How to run a grievance hearing, informing the employee of its outcome and dealing with delays.

What you must do before you hold a grievance hearing to ensure that it runs as smoothly as possible.

A grievance procedure deals with grievances in a fair and reasonable manner.

How to communicate your grievance procedure and whether or not to make it contractual.

How to keep staff and maintain morale by resolving grievances effectively and quickly.

How employers can support employees undergoing fertility treatment.

How employers can support employees to continue breastfeeding on their return to work after maternity leave.

How employers can ensure they stay on the right side of sex discrimination law and appropriately support pregnant workers.

A pregnant employee is entitled to paid time off to attend antenatal care appointments during working hours.

When an employee who is pregnant, or has recently given birth, or who is breast-feeding may have to be suspended from work on maternity grounds.

Employers' additional health and safety obligations towards pregnant workers and female workers of childbearing age.

Pregnant employees' rights in relation to health and safety, fertility treatment, antenatal care, dismissal/discrimination, and breastfeeding.

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