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ACAS employment guidance

Sterling's reviewed authority, acquisition and reuse decision for ACAS employment guidance.

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Official interpretation · Permitted automated ingestion · Public

Published by ACAS. Jurisdiction: UK.

What it covers

  • employment
  • holiday pay
  • termination
  • workplace practice

Publication and history

Guidance is updated in place and can change after legislation or case law.

Current publisher guidance; retained snapshots are required for changed employment positions.

Review cadence: Weekly. Reliability: Official publisher.

Acquisition and rights

  • Acquisition: Permitted automated ingestion

  • Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0

  • Commercial reuse: Permitted with attribution

  • Raw storage: Permitted

  • Derived assertions: Permitted

  • Public use: Attributed derived content

  • Visibility: Public

Respect robots and modest request rates; exclude credited third-party material and preserve lower authority than law.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; credited third-party material remains excluded.

Evidence for this decision

  • ACAS copyright — Licence evidence, reviewed 11 September 2026.
  • ACAS terms — Terms evidence, reviewed 11 September 2026.

Source registry: sterling-source-registry@2026-09-11.5. Last reviewed 11 September 2026.