Your employment rights

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Understanding your rights and responsibilities at work can be confusing, but there are various sources of information that can help you. Find out more about:

• your entitlements to holidays, pay and working hours
• equal opportunities in the workplace
• working parents' rights, and
• Renfrewshire Council's employment policies.

Pay and entitlements


The Citizens Advice website also provides useful advice about employment rights.

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Equal opportunities

Everyone has the right to be treated fairly in the workplace. Renfrewshire Council is committed to providing equal opportunities for all job applicants and employees. You can read our full equal opportunities policy here.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission website also has lots of useful information about tacking discrimination. Find out more about:

• Age equality, how age discrimination can affect you if you are considered to be too old or too young, and what you can do to tackle it.
• Race equality, your legal rights and what to do if you're being discriminated against because of your race, colour, nationality or ethnicity.
• Disability equality, the law about disability discrimination and what measures employers must take to make adjustments for you if you have a physical or mental impairment.
• Gender equality, the laws regarding equal pay and what to do if you are being treated less favourably because of your sex.
• Religion and belief equality and your rights to practice your religion without fear of discrimination.
• Sexual orientation equality and what to do if you are being treated unfairly because you are (or are percieved as being) lesbian, gay, bisexual or straight.

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Working parents

Balancing work and childcare can be challenging. However, if you have a child under the age of 16 or a disabled child under 18, you have a right to request flexible working and your employer must consider your request seriously.

Visit DirectGov to find out more about your rights as a working parent, including your entitlement to parental leave and flexible working.

You may also be interested in:

• Finding local childcare services in the area.
• Financial information for parents, including information on child tax credits.
• The Scottish Childcare website, which provides a range of information from funding for childcare to general information about the types of support available for parents.

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Renfrewshire Council's employment policies

Renfrewshire Council has a range of employment policies which support the council and it employees in delivering effective services. You can download a selection of these policies here:

• Equal pay policy statement
• Equal opportunities
• Flexible working
• Maternity, adoption and paternity leave
• Recruitment of ex-offenders

You can also read our Learning and Development Policy - attached below. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this document. Download Acrobat Reader here.

Learning and Development Policy

To find out more about these or any other of our employment policies, please email us at personnel@renfrewshire.gov.uk or contact us by phone on 0141 840 3534 or 840 3593.

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