Employment Questions and Answers
Welcome to the Agency's questions and answers web page. We hope you will find it useful in addressing what we believe are some of the most contemporary employment relations issues in the modern workplace.
The Agency receives over 30,000 calls per year seeking information and advice on employment relations matters. The pages listed down the right hand side give a series of typical questions received by the Agency on various employment topics. These give you a chance to see typical questions which our Enquiry Officers deal with on a daily basis.
The answers to the questions on the topics pages are not in-depth and they are only to give the reader/user a general 'snapshot' of the potential employment issues associated with the question topics. However the answers will direct you to a relevant Agency publication or external sources which will give more detail.
The Agency has a team of Enquiry Officers who can provide further free and confidential advice and/or information 'tailored' to your own particular circumstances.
Whilst the Agency aims to give an informative and comprehensive service the user should be aware that the Agency does not give legal advice. Therefore, in return for usage the user hereby agrees, by virtue of progressing through this website, that he/she will not hold the Agency liable for the result foreseeable of any actions that he/she may take based on the information contained herein. Thus, any information contained in this website or as a result of material taken or adduced from Agency publications or enquiries should not be regarded as an authoritative statement or interpretation of law. Such legal interpretation can only be given by the Industrial Tribunals, the Fair Employment Tribunal or the courts. Legal considerations must be looked at in light of the particular circumstances and it may be wise to seek legal advice.