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• Taking your paid holiday

  Find out what notice you have to give, when you can take holiday, what notice your employer has to give you if they refuse, whether you can carry over holiday from one year to the next

• Check if you can take time off work

  Check your right to time off work, including paid and unpaid leave. You have the right to take time off work in certain circumstances, your 'statutory rights

• Carers: help and support

  Help and support available for carers including social care needs assessments and financial help

• Problems getting insurance

  Why insurers might not offer you insurance and what to do if you are having problems with getting insurance

• Claiming compensation for a personal injury

  How you can take legal action if you want to claim compensation for a personal injury

• What to do if you don't get your maternity rights

  Know how to negotiate to get your maternity rights at work - or how to use the employment tribunal to win compensation if your employer refuses to follow the law

• Check what happens if you win your employment tribunal case

  Find out what you can do if your employer won't pay compensation, if you have to pay tax on your compensation and if compensation will affect your benefits

• If your employer wants to dismiss you because of long term sickness

  Check if your employer can dismiss you and what processes they need to follow

• Eviction for rent arrears

  Details of the various types of possession orders that a judge can grant a landlord in order to evict their tenant

• Getting a bank account

  Information on how to get a bank account, types of account available and switching from one bank or building society to another