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Cash in hand wages and tax
Can my employer pay me cash in hand without reporting my wages for tax and National Insurance?
Read the answer →Underpayment of wages
What can I do if my student job pays me for the wrong number of hours or at the wrong hourly rate?
Read the answer →Right to itemised payslip
Am I entitled to an itemised payslip, and what can I do if it is missing or wrong?
Read the answer →Right to written statement of employment terms
Am I entitled to a written contract or statement for a casual, part-time or zero-hours student job?
Read the answer →Self Assessment registration for freelance income
Do I need to register for Self Assessment for freelance work or a student side hustle?
Read the answer →PAYE tax across multiple jobs
How does PAYE tax work if I have two student jobs or several short-term jobs?
Read the answer →Employer withholding P45 or P60
What can I do if my employer refuses to give me a P45 or P60?
Read the answer →Employer requiring extra shifts
Can my employer require me to work extra shifts or hours outside my contract or agreed availability?
Read the answer →Auto-enrolment pension for part-time worker
Can a part-time student worker be automatically enrolled in a workplace pension, and can I opt out?
Read the answer →Part-time worker pay and benefits rights
Can a part-time student worker be paid less or denied benefits given to full-time staff?
Read the answer →Fixed-term worker less favourable treatment
Can a fixed-term or seasonal student worker be treated less favourably than permanent staff?
Read the answer →Job terms differing from offer
What can I do if the pay, hours or duties in my student job are materially different from the advert or offer?
Read the answer →Unilateral changes to employment contract
Can my employer change my pay, contracted hours, duties or workplace without my agreement?
Read the answer →Work shifts clashing with university teaching
Can my employer require me to work shifts that clash with lectures or compulsory university teaching?
Read the answer →Flexible working request for students
Can I make a flexible-working request to fit my student job around my university timetable?
Read the answer →Employer changing shifts at short notice
Can my employer add, move or change my shifts at short notice?
Read the answer →Refusing shifts on zero-hours contract
Can I refuse a shift on a zero-hours contract, and can my employer punish me by withholding future work?
Read the answer →Zero-hours contract exclusivity clause
Can a zero-hours employer stop me working for another employer?
Read the answer →Guaranteed hours on zero-hours contract
Do I have a right to guaranteed hours if I regularly work the same pattern on a zero-hours contract?
Read the answer →Employer reducing hours without dismissal
What can I do if my employer cuts my hours or stops offering me shifts without formally dismissing me?
Read the answer →Employer refusing statutory holiday requests
Can my employer refuse all my holiday requests or prevent me taking my statutory holiday?
Read the answer →Final pay entitlements on leaving job
What should my final pay include when I leave a student job, including unused holiday and notice pay?
Read the answer →Withholding final wages for unworked notice
Can my employer withhold my final wages if I leave without working my notice?
Read the answer →Recovery of training costs from wages
Can my employer recover training costs from my final wages when I leave?
Read the answer →Employer insolvency owing wages
What can I do if my employer goes out of business owing me wages or holiday pay?
Read the answer →Employer recovering alleged overpayment
Can an employer deduct money it says it overpaid me?
Read the answer →Ill health and finding shift cover
Can my employer make me find cover for my shift when I am ill?
Read the answer →Fit note for short-term illness
Can my employer demand a fit note when I have been ill for fewer than seven days?
Read the answer →Family leave rights for part-time student workers
What maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal and other family-leave rights do part-time student workers have?
Read the answer →Time off for family emergency
Can a student worker take time off for a family emergency or caring responsibility?
Read the answer →Overtime and unsocial hours pay entitlement
Am I entitled to extra pay for overtime, night shifts, Sundays or bank holidays?
Read the answer →Unpaid overtime obligations
Can my employer require me to work unpaid overtime?
Read the answer →Statutory sick pay eligibility for casual work
Am I entitled to Statutory Sick Pay in a part-time, casual or zero-hours student job?
Read the answer →Agency worker day one rights
What rights do I have as a temporary or agency worker from my first day?
Read the answer →Unexplained deductions from agency pay
What can I do if an agency or umbrella company makes unexplained deductions from my pay?
Read the answer →Recruitment agency fees for work-seekers
Can a recruitment agency charge me a fee for finding student work?
Read the answer →Agency worker rights after twelve weeks
Am I entitled to the same pay and holiday entitlement as permanent staff after 12 weeks as an agency worker?
Read the answer →Withdrawn job offer before starting
What can I do if an employer withdraws an accepted job offer before I start?
Read the answer →On-call and waiting time pay
Must I be paid for time spent on call or waiting at the workplace?
Read the answer →Travel time between assignments as working time
Does travel time between workplaces or assignments count as paid working time?
Read the answer →Agency withholding pay over timesheet dispute
Can an agency refuse to pay me because the hirer disputes my timesheet or is unhappy with my work?
Read the answer →Agency restricting permanent employment offer
Can an agency stop me accepting a permanent job with the company where it placed me?
Read the answer →Rights during workplace disciplinary and grievance
What rights do I have during a disciplinary or grievance process in my student job?
Read the answer →Suspension without pay during investigation
Can my employer suspend me without pay while it investigates an allegation?
Read the answer →Detriment for asserting employment rights
Can my employer punish me for complaining about minimum wage, holiday pay or other employment rights?
Read the answer →Time limits for tribunal claim
How long do I have to start Acas early conciliation or bring an employment tribunal claim about my student job?
Read the answer →Emergency tax code reclaim
Why have I been put on an emergency tax code in my student job, and how do I reclaim overpaid tax?
Read the answer →Student earnings tax and National Insurance
Do students have to pay Income Tax and National Insurance on earnings from a part-time or holiday job?
Read the answer →Minimum wage rates by age
Which minimum-wage rate applies to students of different ages?
Read the answer →Unpaid trial shift entitlement
Must I be paid for a trial shift?
Read the answer →Unpaid internship legality
When is an unpaid internship unlawful?
Read the answer →University placement minimum wage entitlement
Does a compulsory university placement qualify for minimum wage?
Read the answer →Unpaid time outside contracted shift
Should I be paid for opening, closing or cleaning before and after my shift?
Read the answer →Zero-hours shift cancellation pay
Am I entitled to anything when a zero-hours shift is cancelled?
Read the answer →Entitlement to tips and service charge
Am I entitled to tips or a share of the service charge?
Read the answer →Deductions from wages for uniforms and shortages
Can an employer deduct money for uniforms, till shortages or damage?
Read the answer →Working time and rest break entitlements
What rest breaks and maximum working hours apply?
Read the answer →Time off for university examinations
Is an employer required to give me time off for university examinations?
Read the answer →Termination rights for student worker
What notice or protection do I have if my student job is terminated?
Read the answer →Determining employment status
Am I an employee, worker, volunteer or genuinely self-employed?
Read the answer →Researcher entitlement to family and sick leave
What sick leave, maternity leave or parental leave can a funded researcher receive?
Read the answer →Postgraduate teaching and marking employment status
Are postgraduate teaching and marking activities paid employment?
Read the answer →Money mule student job recruitment
Have I been recruited as a money mule through a supposed student job?
Read the answer →Employer late paying wages
What can I do if my employer has not paid me on time?
Read the answer →Employer refusing pay for training time
Can my employer refuse to pay me for training time?
Read the answer →Holiday pay for variable hours workers
How is holiday pay calculated if my hours or pay change every week?
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