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This Practice Note is a guide to the key elements of employment law in Wales that differ from those in England. It covers Welsh employment law relating to smoking in the workplace, the socio-economic duty that forms part of the public sector equality duty in Wales, apprenticeships and agricultural wages.

This Q&A considers whether, if an employee falls ill during a period of parental leave, they have the right to cancel their parental leave and be treated as being on sick leave instead.

This Q&A considers article 15 of the Agricultural Wages (Wales) Order 2020, SI 2020/347, in particular whether it means that an employer can charge an agricultural worker no more than £1.50 per week for a house that is provided to them for their accommodation, or whether it effectively prevents the employer from charging rent in excess of the stated sum, even if it is not paid by way of a deduction from wages.