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• Apprenticeships

  Explains the different types of apprenticeship schemes available and who they are designed for. Summarises the employment rights of apprentices including pay and the national minimum wage, health and safety, redundancy and dismissal

• Applying for flexible working

  Check what flexible working is, how to make a flexible working request and what your employer will do next

• A business takes legal action against you to recover losses for theft

  What to do if you are accused of shoplifting, theft or negligence at work where the business is trying to recover compensation for alleged losses

• Example of defence to eviction from a public sector tenancy in the sheriff court

  ) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, is a “benefit or facility” for the purposes of schedule 4 paragraph 2(5)(b) of the 2010 Act. As already described, the defender was placed at a substantial disadvantage

• How much pension you'll need

  Advice on planning for financial commitments in retirement and saving for a pension

• If the Pension Service says you've had a Pension Credit overpayment

  How to check if you’ve actually been overpaid by the Pension Service and how to challenge a Pension Credit overpayment

• Hire purchase and conditional sale

  Information about how hire purchase and conditional sale agreements work, the right to end a hire purchase agreement and what happens if the buyer is unable to pay

• Changing your name

  How to change a name, how to record it and who to tell about