Skip to main content
yerty

What are my rights
at work?

UK workers are protected by a range of employment rights. Which apply depends on your status, service length and situation — map your facts before you assume what you can claim.

Start free assessment →See how rights map

Free Assessment Report · Account required to save · No card required

Employment law in England and Wales is a stack of statutes and contract rules: dismissal, pay, discrimination, whistleblowing, family leave, redundancy and more. A single workplace problem can touch several at once — or none of the ones you expect.

Some rights apply from day one. Others need qualifying service. Some claims have short filing windows even when the right itself is clear.

01

Landscape

Rights fall into clusters

  • Dismissal & notice22%
  • Discrimination20%
  • Pay & working time18%
  • Family & leave16%
  • Whistleblowing12%
  • Other statutory12%

Thinking in clusters beats memorising Acts. Start from what happened; then see which clusters the facts touch.

02

Timing

Day-one vs qualifying rights

Often day one

Pay · disc.

Wages, discrimination, whistleblowing detriment

Often needs service

UD · redun.

Ordinary unfair dismissal & some redundancy routes

Status (employee vs worker) and length of service change the picture. That is why a generic rights list is only a start.

Illustrative mix of rights people explore on Case Hub — not national claim volumes

The same employer behaviour can point at different rights depending on why it happened, who you are, and what documents exist. Mapping situation → rights is the useful next step.

DismissedUnfair dismissal · notice · redundancy pay
Forced outConstructive dismissal · discrimination
Treated worseEquality Act · harassment · victimisation
Pay problemsWages · holiday · working time
Spoke upProtected disclosure · detriment
Pregnancy / leaveMaternity · discrimination · flexible work

7

Situations

Guided entry points

Free

Rights tool

Rights Checker

~5 min

Assessment

Report included

No

Advice?

Information only

Two free starting points. The assessment orients your whole situation. The Rights Checker goes deep on which employment rights may apply — and which likely do not.

01

Assessment Report

Rights and claim types that may be relevant

Situation summary

Plain-language shape of the problem

Rights clusters

Areas of law your answers touch

Dates to check

Clocks that often matter next

02

Rights Checker

Apply / maybe / unlikely — per right

Unlawful deductionsLikely relevant
DiscriminationCheck further
Ordinary unfair dismissalNeeds service

Specimen UI · live tools ask your facts before showing results

Free workplace assessmentAbout five minutes. What your situation is called and which rights and claim types may be relevant.Open →Rights CheckerSee which employment rights may apply to your situation — and which may not.Open →
  1. 01Account

    Create an account

    Free to start. No card. Answers and report stay in your account.

    Case Hub

    Create account
  2. 02Assessment

    Complete the free assessment

    About five minutes. Plain questions about what happened — not legal jargon.

    Workplace assessment

    What happened?
    When did it start?
    Still employed?
  3. 03Rights

    Explore rights that may apply

    Your Assessment Report plus the Rights Checker surface the areas of law your facts point toward.

    Rights Checker

    DismissalPayDiscrimination

    May be relevant · check further

Free to start · England and Wales · not individual legal advice

Start with your situation — not a statute list

Create an account, complete the free assessment, then explore the rights your facts point toward.

Start free assessment →Open Rights Checker

General information for England and Wales — not individual legal advice.