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        • How to manage an employee's return to work following maternity leave
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        • How to carry out a HR data audit (GDPR compliant)
        • How to determine a lawful basis for processing HR data (GDPR compliant)
        • How to manage a restructure
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        • How to manage working time and time off work
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        • How to manage a return to work after absence
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        • How to manage a disciplinary procedure
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        • How to design and manage HR investigations
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        • Shared parental leave and pay
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        • Changing terms and conditions
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        • National minimum wage
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        • Sick pay
        • Sabbaticals
      • Family friendly and flexible working rights
        • Maternity leave and pay
        • Paternity leave and pay
        • Adoption leave and pay
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        • General staff benefits
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      • Managing performance
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        • Maternity leave and pay
        • Paternity leave and pay
        • Shared parental leave
        • Adoption leave and pay
        • Surrogacy
        • Flexible working
        • Parental leave
        • Time off work
        • Condolences
        • Time off for dependants
      • Equality
        • Preventing and handling discrimination
        • Harassment and bullying
        • Modern slavery statements
      • Business principles
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        • Medical suspension
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        • Corporate social responsibility
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        • Managing employee grievance
        • HR investigations
      • Dispute resolution
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      • Pay and benefits
        • Calculating part-time holiday pay
        • Calculating statutory sick pay
      • Family friendly and flexible working rights
        • Calculating statutory maternity pay
        • Calculating statutory adoption pay
        • Calculating statutory shared parental pay
      • Managing absence and capability
        • Calculating the frequency of absence
        • Calculating the rate of absence
        • Calculating the cost of absence
        • Calculating the cost of stress-related absence
        • The Bradford factor calculator
      • Termination
        • Calculating statutory redundancy pay
        • Calculating enhanced statutory redundancy pay
    • Benchmarking tools
      • 2018: Settlements and forecasts
        • February 2018: Settlements and forecasts
        • January 2018: Settlements and forecasts
      • 2017: Settlements and forecasts
        • December 2017: Settlements and forecasts
        • November 2017: Settlements and forecasts
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        • Managing maternity leave and pay
        • Managing a pregnant employee's absence
        • Managing paternity leave and pay
        • Managing adoption leave and pay
        • Managing homeworking requests
        • Managing requests for time off to study
        • Managing shared parental leave
        • Pay when bad weather affects work
      • Equality
        • Managing an employee with a disability
      • Business principles
        • Managing a data security breach (GDPR compliant)
        • Managing a subject access request (GDPR compliant)
      • Managing absence and capability
        • Dealing with long-term absence
        • Dealing with performance or attendance issues
        • Carrying out a capability procedure
        • Dealing with compassionate leave
      • Discipline and grievance
        • Misconduct investigation
        • Gross misconduct investigation
        • Suspension due to misconduct investigation
        • Carrying out a disciplinary hearing
        • Carrying out a grievance hearing
      • Employee relations
        • Trade union recognition
        • Industrial action
    • Checklists
      • Recruitment and selection
        • Managing recruitment advertising
        • Working with recruitment agencies
        • Contacting passive job seekers
        • Conducting telephone interviews
        • Chairing an interview
        • Assessing a presentation during an interview
        • Preparing to make an offer of employment
        • Making a verbal job offer
        • Making a conditional job offer
      • Pay and benefits
        • Managing holidays
        • Creating a holiday policy
        • Providing relocation assistance
      • Family friendly and flexible working rights
        • Managing maternity leave and pay
        • Maternity leave and pay eligibility checklist
        • Managing paternity leave and pay
        • Paternity leave and pay eligibility checklist
        • Managing adoption leave and pay
        • Adoption leave and pay eligibility checklist
        • Managing shared parental leave and pay
        • Shared parental leave and pay eligibility checklist
        • Dealing with flexible working requests
        • Right to request flexible working eligibility checklist
        • Managing homeworking
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Find out about the law on discrimination in the workplace by reading the summary and in-depth pages and case law for the range of topics below.

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Age discrimination

Disability discrimination

Gender reassignment discrimination

Marriage and civil partnership discrimination

Pregnancy and maternity discrimination

Race discrimination

Religion and belief discrimination

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