Useful Links

Department for Business Innovation & Skills

The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) is the department for economic growth. The department invests in skills and education to promote trade, boost innovation and help people to start and grow a business. BIS also protects consumers and reduces the impact of regulation.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-innovation-skills

Employment Tribunal Guidance

An Employment Tribunal is like a court but it is not as formal; for example, nobody wears a wig or gown. However, like a court it must act independently and cannot give legal advice. Almost all hearings are open to the public.

https://www.justice.gov.uk/tribunals/employment

Employment Appeal Tribunal Guidance

An appeal must be on a point of law, i.e. it must identify flaws in the legal reasoning of the original decision. The Employment Appeal Tribunal will not normally re–examine issues of fact.

https://www.justice.gov.uk/tribunals/employment-appeals

Equality and Human Rights Commission

We have a statutory remit to promote and monitor human rights; and to protect, enforce and promote equality across the nine “protected” grounds – age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com

Health and Safety Executive

We are an independent regulator and act in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces.

https://www.hse.gov.uk/

Information Commissioner’s Office

The UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.

https://www.ico.org.uk

Gov.uk

The best place to find government services and information.

https://www.gov.uk