Law
The articles below cover a wide range of important laws and regulations that affect small businesses.
Topics include sick pay, copyrights, trademarks, passing off, employment contracts, working hours and holidays, and employee sacking and redundancy.
These articles are regularly maintained, but you should always get specific legal advice before taking action on legal matters!
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- Data Protection & Copyright – Copyright Infringement
- Age Discrimination – Between Employees
- Age Discrimination – Recruitment, References, Pay, Benefits & Retirement
- Age Discrimination – Training, Promotion, Dismissal & Redundancy
- Cancel Contracts Properly or Face Potential Problems Later
- Copyright Protection Online
- Data Protection & Copyright – Copyright
- Data Protection & Copyright – Data Protection of Customer Information
- Data Protection & Copyright – Domain Names
- Data Protection & Copyright – Unlicensed Software
- Dismissal – Dismissal, Sacking and Redundancy
- Dismissal – Sacking
- Dismissal – Calculating Redundancy Pay
- Dismissal – Dismissal & Sacking Notice Period
- Dismissal – Redundancy
- Dismissal – Redundancy Notice Period
- Dismissal – The Correct Dismissal Procedure
- Dismissal – Unfair, Wrongful or Constructive Dismissal
- Employee Notice for Paid Holiday Leave
- Employer Pension Obligations
- Employing Children & Young People
- Employment Contract – Changing & Terminating a Contract
- Employment Contract – Written Statement of Employment
- Foreign Workers – Employing Foreign Workers Without Permission
- Foreign Workers – Getting Permission for Foreign Workers
- Health & Safety at Work – Fire Regulations
- Health & Safety at Work – Managing Hazardous Waste
- How to Apply for a Patent
- Is Someone Passing Off as Your Business?
- Linking to Other Web Sites
- Monitoring Employees at Work
- National Lottery Syndicates at Work
- Patents & Trademarks – Applying for a Patent
- Patents & Trademarks – Applying for a Trademark
- Patents & Trademarks – Patents
- Patents & Trademarks – Patents
- Patents & Trademarks – Trademark
- Smoke-Free Workplace Laws
- Smoke-Free Workplaces Laws – Taking action
- Using Meta Tag Information
- What is in an Employment Contract?(continued)
- What Problems Can Passing Off Cause?
- Working Hours – Business Trading Hours
- Working Hours – Emergency Leave
- Working Hours – Employee Hours & Break Entitlement
- Working Hours – Flexible Working Hours
- Working Hours – Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave & Parental Leave
- Working Hours – Notice for Paid Holiday
- Working Hours – Paid Holiday Entitlement
- Working Hours – Statutory Sick Pay
