Understanding your rights as an employee is important but are you clued up on what the 10 most important are?

Manak Solicitors have created a 10-point guide to employee rights, to help you understand what the 10 most important rights are.

The guide contains up-to-date guidelines, such as

1. A look at the 10 most important rights employees should know about (e.g. statutory sick pay, flexible working, parental leave, and rights under the Equality Act of 2010)

2. A good overview of each employee’s rights, including key summaries, limitations and exemptions, and important facts and figures. 

3. Understanding employee rights during COVID-19: information on the job retention scheme and government grants and benefit schemes to help support workers during the pandemic. 

Their research found that:

• Over half of the adults (54%) living in Greater London – home to over nine million people – report experiencing discrimination at work or when applying for work. That's well above the UK average of 36%.

• Whilst 22.7 million people in the UK work full time, around 8.4 million employees work part-time – and the UK has some of the most diverse ranges of working arrangements in Europe.

• You can get £96.35 per week Statutory Sick Pay ( SSP ) if you're too ill to work. It's paid by your employer for up to 28 weeks.

To see the full guide, head over to their website.