Members' guides
These are short guides covering a range of issues that affect individual members.
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01 Lone Working
Last updated/published: 15 January 2011
Advice for anyone who travels alone, carries out fieldwork or works at outside premises
Last updated/published: 15 January 2011
Advice for anyone who travels alone, carries out fieldwork or works at outside premises
02 Early retirement, severance and redundancy in the civil service
Last updated/published: 06 March 2003
This guide is out-of-date and no longer available to download.
Last updated/published: 06 March 2003
This guide is out-of-date and no longer available to download.
03 Harassment and bullying
Last updated/published: 06 January 2011
What is harassment, and how to deal with it
Last updated/published: 06 January 2011
What is harassment, and how to deal with it
04 Individual contracts of employment
Last updated/published: 30 November 2008
Your legal rights if you're employed on an individual contract; how to negotiate your own contract; and the pitfalls to avoid
Last updated/published: 30 November 2008
Your legal rights if you're employed on an individual contract; how to negotiate your own contract; and the pitfalls to avoid
06 e-mail and the internet at work
Last updated/published: 13 January 2008
The spread of email and the internet at work has raised new issues for trade union members and representatives. Prospect has seen a growing number of disciplinary cases connected to the use of computer facilities. Members need to be aware that inappropriate use of these facilities can result in disciplinary action and dismissal.
Last updated/published: 13 January 2008
The spread of email and the internet at work has raised new issues for trade union members and representatives. Prospect has seen a growing number of disciplinary cases connected to the use of computer facilities. Members need to be aware that inappropriate use of these facilities can result in disciplinary action and dismissal.
07 One to one interviews
Last updated/published: 13 May 2008
Essential pointers for job evaluation interviews or personal reviews
Last updated/published: 13 May 2008
Essential pointers for job evaluation interviews or personal reviews
08 Work-related stress
Last updated/published: 11 March 2010
The causes of stress, its effect on health, its symptoms, and employers' legal duties (updated March 2010)
Last updated/published: 11 March 2010
The causes of stress, its effect on health, its symptoms, and employers' legal duties (updated March 2010)
09 Fixed term contracts
Last updated/published: 19 March 2009
This guide summarises the legal rights to equal treatment for fixed-term contract employees and the limitations on extending the fixed-term beyond four years. It also describes the other general rights for workers on fixed-term contracts.
Last updated/published: 19 March 2009
This guide summarises the legal rights to equal treatment for fixed-term contract employees and the limitations on extending the fixed-term beyond four years. It also describes the other general rights for workers on fixed-term contracts.
10 Overseas working
Last updated/published: 15 October 2002
General advice for members who may be about to work overseas. This guide covers: implications for your contract of employment; personal issues such as accommodation, insurance and medical treatment; social security and pensions; health and safety; tips for travellers; tax planning.
Last updated/published: 15 October 2002
General advice for members who may be about to work overseas. This guide covers: implications for your contract of employment; personal issues such as accommodation, insurance and medical treatment; social security and pensions; health and safety; tips for travellers; tax planning.
11 Employment tribunals
Last updated/published: 15 July 2009
This guide explains the process of progressing a claim through an Employment Tribunal (ET). Updated July 2009
Last updated/published: 15 July 2009
This guide explains the process of progressing a claim through an Employment Tribunal (ET). Updated July 2009
12 Parental and family leave
Last updated/published: 21 January 2009
This booklet - updated in January 2009 - explains everyone's rights under the Maternity and Parental Leave regulations and the Paternity and Adoptive Leave regulations. It also indicates how your employer can improve upon the minimum provisions. It complements our Members' Guide 13 to Maternity Rights, which sets out entitlement to maternity pay and leave.
Last updated/published: 21 January 2009
This booklet - updated in January 2009 - explains everyone's rights under the Maternity and Parental Leave regulations and the Paternity and Adoptive Leave regulations. It also indicates how your employer can improve upon the minimum provisions. It complements our Members' Guide 13 to Maternity Rights, which sets out entitlement to maternity pay and leave.
13 Maternity rights
Last updated/published: 30 October 2009
Your rights to maternity leave and pay updated in September 2009
Last updated/published: 30 October 2009
Your rights to maternity leave and pay updated in September 2009
14 Job evaluation and grading support 2000
Last updated/published: 01 December 2007
The JEGS job evaluation system is widely used in the civil service and related areas
Last updated/published: 01 December 2007
The JEGS job evaluation system is widely used in the civil service and related areas
15 TUPE regulations
Last updated/published: 16 February 2011
Your rights when a business transfers to a new employer
Last updated/published: 16 February 2011
Your rights when a business transfers to a new employer
16 Part-time and flexible working
Last updated/published: 07 June 2010
How flexible and reduced patterns of work can help you balance your working life with your personal life
Last updated/published: 07 June 2010
How flexible and reduced patterns of work can help you balance your working life with your personal life
17 Equality at work
Last updated/published: 18 October 2010
An overview of the legal rights that relate to equal opportunities at work as at October 2010. This replaces the earlier guide 'equal opportunities and the law.'
Last updated/published: 18 October 2010
An overview of the legal rights that relate to equal opportunities at work as at October 2010. This replaces the earlier guide 'equal opportunities and the law.'
18 Appealing against performance appraisal
Last updated/published: 14 April 2008
The steps likely to be involved in an appeals process
Last updated/published: 14 April 2008
The steps likely to be involved in an appeals process
19 Competencies and how to prepare for them
Last updated/published: 19 January 2009
What competencies are, and how they might affect you if introduced into your workplace
Last updated/published: 19 January 2009
What competencies are, and how they might affect you if introduced into your workplace
20 Homeworking
Last updated/published: 24 October 2011
Homeworking is a flexible arrangement by which workers use their home as their main or subsidiary place of work for an employer, either as an office or as a base from which visits are made. Updated October 2011
Last updated/published: 24 October 2011
Homeworking is a flexible arrangement by which workers use their home as their main or subsidiary place of work for an employer, either as an office or as a base from which visits are made. Updated October 2011
21 Sector skills councils
Last updated/published: 31 May 2007
Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) are independent organisations promoting skills, training and qualifications at all levels. Eighty-five per cent of the UK workforce is covered by one of the 25 SSCs. This guide explains what they are and what they do.
Last updated/published: 31 May 2007
Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) are independent organisations promoting skills, training and qualifications at all levels. Eighty-five per cent of the UK workforce is covered by one of the 25 SSCs. This guide explains what they are and what they do.