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• Get help with costs if you have a child or you’re pregnant

  Check what help you can get with the cost of living. This might include extra benefits and grants, free childcare, help with school costs and the Healthy Start scheme

• Maternity leave - what you're entitled to and how to get it

  Check your right to time off work when you have a baby. Find out how to arrange time off with your employer

• Check if your agency is paying you the right amount

  Find out what pay you should get and what fees your agency can charge you

• Resigning from your job

  Check your options before you decide to resign. Check the best way to resign

• Losing your job if you have a Health and Care Worker visa

  Find out what happens when you lose your job if you have a Health and Care Worker visa, and what you can do if you find yourself in this situation

• Discrimination at work because of pregnancy or maternity

  Check if you've been discriminated against because you're pregnant, had a pregnancy-related illness or took maternity leave. Check if it counts as pregnancy and maternity discrimination under the Equality Act

• If you're thinking of making a claim to an employment tribunal

  Find out if you can make a claim, the deadline for making a claim, what types of claim an employment tribunal can deal with and where you can get help

• 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

• 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 what compensation you can get for unfair dismissal

  Find out how to work out your basic and compensatory awards, when your compensation could be increased or decreased, if you need to repay any welfare benefits