Know Your Rights Employment and Family Rights

Know Your Rights: Employment and Family Rights brings together the most up-to-date information on:

• Your employment rights, from start to finish, covering terms and conditions of employment, redundancy (incorporating changes under Budget 2013), unfair dismissal, non-payment of wages, sick pay and sick leave (including recent changes in the public sector and further changes announced in Budget 2013), and maternity, paternity and parental leave, as well as all other protected employment legislation
• The new dispute resolution process under the Workplace Relations Services and further proposed changes in workplace relations legislation
• Family law, covering the requirements, rights and obligations surrounding marriage, civil partnership and cohabitation (especially under the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010)
• Divorce, separation, dissolution of civil partnerships, annulment, mediation, pre-nuptials and protection of the family home
• All other family law issues such as guardianship, access, custody, adoption, maintenance, domestic violence, and wills and inheritance (including changes announced in Budget 2013)

Drawing on national and EU legislation, and using an accessible question-and-answer format, Know Your Rights: Employment and Family Rights is an indispensable guide for all households.