Employment rights

workSMART : workSMART, brought to you by the TUC, is here to help today's working people get the best out of the world of work

Trouble At Work : Joint Unison & NUS site dealing with wide range of work related issues, including accidents & safety, rights at work, bullying, looking after yourself, relationships at work, finance issues, placements, stress, studying, trade union issues

TIGER : Tailored Interactive Guidance on Employment Rights

Scottish Low Pay Unit : SLPU is an independant organisation commited to improving the position of low paid workers in Scotland.

DTI - National Minimum Wage : DTI website detailing current National Minimum Wage rates and other information and publications on the NMW.

Health and Safety Executive : Britain's Health and Safety Commission (HSC) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are responsible for the regulation of almost all the risks to health and safety arising from work activity in Britain.

Employment Tribunals Service : Employment Tribunals resolve disputes between employers and employees over employment rights.

National Group on Homeworking : The National Group on Homeworking is a non-governmental organisation which campaigns for improved employment rights and conditions for homeworkers.

Incomes Data Services : Incomes Data Services (IDS) is an independent research organisation. All our work is focused on employment-related areas.

Your Job Rights : The Essential Guide to to Employment Law for Workers and Employees.

Work Foundation : The Work Foundation exists to inspire and deliver improvements to performance through improving the quality of working life. It believes that productive, high performance organisations are those committed to making work more fulfilling, fun, inspirational and effective, and through engaging their workforce succeed in integrating the many aims crucial to organisational success.

Equalities

One Workplace Equal Rights Campaign : One Workplace Equal Rights is here to tackle racism and promote equal opportunities in the workplace by providing accessible information and advice regarding your rights at work, including new rights under EC equality directives, in relation to race, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation and religion.

Close the Gap Campaign : Close the Gap is a partnership project which covers the whole of Scotland. The partners have secured 3 years of European funding to run an gender Equal Pay project in Scotland.

Work-Life Balance Campaign : DTI's Work-Life Balance Campaign.

Low Pay Commission : The Low Pay Commission (LPC) was established as a result of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 to advise the Government about the National Minimum Wage.

Equal Opportunites Commission : The Equal Opportunities Commission is the leading agency working to eliminate sex discrimination in 21st Century Britain. If women and men had equal chances in life, things would be different.

Disability Rights Commission : The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) is an independent body established in April 2000 by Act of Parliament to stop discrimination and promote equality of opportunity for disabled people.

Commission for Racial Equality : The Commission for Racial Equality is a publicly funded, non-governmental body set up under the Race Relations Act 1976 to tackle racial discrimination and promote racial equality.

Age Positive : Age Positive promote age diversity in employment. Our work includes increasing the retention of people over 50 in work, encouraging employers to use age-diverse practices, analysing the position of older workers in the employment market, and sharing good practice internationally.

Stonewall : Stonewall was founded in 1989 by women and men who had been active in the struggle against Section 28 of the Local Government Act. Their aim was to create a professional lobbying group that would prevent such attacks on lesbians, gay men and bisexuals ever occurring again and to put the case for equality on the mainstream political agenda by winning support within all the political parties.