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ISBN
Price
Date
Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship - 2nd Edition (2007)
978 0113413133 £9.99+VAT 2007
'Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship' is the only official test book and study guide - written by the Home Office Life in the UK Advisory Group, the people who set the citizenship test.

Essential reading for those taking the Citizenship test wanting to apply for British citizenship or settlement; or teaching English or basic skills to prospective applicants for British citizenship or settlement.

PLEASE NOTE: As of 2 July 2007, the test is based on the second edition only. It is no longer possible to take the test using the 1st Edition.
Your Rights at Work - a TUC Guide 3rd edition
978 0 74945239 1
£9.99 2008
Written by employment experts at the TUC, the 3rd edition (2008) of this popular book contains revised sections on maternity rights, flexible working, holiday entitlement, health and safety and disciplinary procedures. All the original material, which included contracts of employment, working time, parental leave, dismissal, health and safety, bullying, wages and discrimination are updated. Kogan Page
Know Your Rights leaflets
FREE Downloads    
The TUC publishes a series of free leaflets explaining your rights at work and dealing with other common workplace problems. Visit the TUC website to download: www.tuc.org.uk/tuc/rights_main.cfm#leaflets (opens in new window)
Know Your Rights leaflets

The TUC publishes a series of free leaflets explaining your rights at work and dealing with other common workplace problems. You download these online here, or read them online at workSMART.

• Maternity leave and pay (updated April 2007)

• Paternity leave and pay

• Adoption leave and pay (updated April 2007)

• Flexible working for parents (updated April 2007)

• You're not alone: trade union representation at work

• Time's up for long hours

• Paid holiday and rest breaks at work (New October 2007)

• Young people at work

• Agency workers have rights too!

• Your rights as a homeworker

• Time off for families

• Privacy at work

• Working in the UK: rights for migrant workers (English)

• Working in the UK: rights for migrant workers (Czech, English, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, French, Spanish.)

Visit the TUC website to download : www.tuc.org.uk/tuc/rights_main.cfm#leaflets (opens in new window)

The A-Z of Employment Practice
978 1854183279 £19.95 Nov06
Provides practical guidance on new legislation and on selected and pertinent decisions by the tribunals and courts. Thorogood
Employment Tribunal Claims: tactics and precedents: Tactics and Precedents
978 1903307557 £30.00 Dec04
Information on how to run an employment tribunal case from start to finish.
Legal Action Group
The Employer's Handbook
978 0749451165
£19.95 Mar04
The Employer's Handbook is a key source of reliable, unambiguous advice for small-and medium-sized employers, clearly identifying both the legal essentials and best practice guidelines for effective HR management, including information on benefits, contracts, maternity/paternity rights, disciplinary issues and data protection.
Kogan Page

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Citizens Advice - Advice Guide

www.adviceguide.org.uk
Covers a wide range of topics and points to reliable sources of advice when more than one source of information is required. Provides information in English, Welsh, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Urdu and Chinese.

Community Legal Advice
www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk/index.jsp
Contact Community Legal Advice for free quality legal help and information. You can find a solicitor or legal adviser in your area, link to the right place on the best advice sites in the UK, see if you are eligible for legal aid or view legal information leaflets. Information is available in English, Welsh, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Turkish and Urdu.
Department for Business Information and Skills (BIS)

www.berr.gov.uk
BERR has the lead responsibility in Whitehall for championing the interests of employees – business’s most important asset. Also responsible for policy on consumers, a vital force for dynamic competitive markets that drive business success. To be moved to a single BIS site.

Department for Work and Pensions

www.dwp.gov.uk
Provides information about the activities and aims of the DWP. There is an A-Z of benefits and services. Sections include families and children, pensions and retirement, working age (including information on New Deal), and disabled people and carers. There a news section, a media centre and a resource centre with downloadable documents.

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