Legal Information

Legislation - means law.

Legal requirements for employment

- All workers are entitled to 6 weeks paid holiday per year also known as statutory leave although bank holidays can be included in this number.

- If you work a 5 day week, you are entitled to 28 day holiday paid annual leave (part time receive less)

- Sick leave, you can receive £92 per week known as (SSP) Statutory sick pay, this can be paid up for 28 weeks. You will need to provide a sick note and to qualify for SSP you will need to take 4 or more days off in a row. You can be paid more than £92 depending on your employer but you will never receive less.

- You can take time off work if it is an emergency regarding a dependent; Children or someone in your care and there is no limit to how much time you can have off, however your employer doesn't legally have to pay you for emergency leave. For this information you will have a handbook.

- Breaks. Workers over the age of 18 are entitled to 3 different types of breaks; Rest break, daily rest and week rest.

- All workers have the right to one 20 minute rest break if they work more than 6 hours a day and the break doesn't have to be paid.

- Daily rest, you have the right to 11 hours rest between working shifts.

- Weekly rest for full time work. Workers have the right to either an uninterrupted 24 hours without any work each week or an uninterrupted 48 hours every two weeks.

- Taking breaks at work. You can leave the building on your break. you should take your break in the middle of your shift, not at the beginning or at the end, or it doesn't count as a rest break and it also doesn't count as a rest break if your employer asks you to go back to work before you've finished your break.

UNLESS your work place allows it, you are not entitled to cigarette breaks or to be paid for rest breaks.

- Legally you shouldn't work over 48 hours a week unless you opt to work more.

Intellectual property - also known as copyright.

TM - stands for TradeMark (you can use trade marks)

if the copyright logo is present, that means you cannot use that material. The copyright logo was created in the 1920s at the birth of music and film.

If you copyright your work it is copyrighted for 70 years after your death. If the work is owned by a company it works the same way, if the company closes it is copyrighted for 70 years. You can pass your work on to other people. once the 70 years is up all work will become public domain, which means the public can use it.

HSE - Health and safety executive.