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Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
Includes pay, contracts, hiring and redundancies
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
Get your business ready to employ staff - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance
Guidance for employers on employing someone outside the UK.
The employment status of au pairs, nannies, carers, personal assistants and other people who work in your home - how to tell if they're an employee or not, what happens with the National Minimum Wage, tax and National Insurance, what...
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.
Information for employers on checking EU, EEA and Swiss citizens’ right to work.
This series brings together all documents relating to Defra: recruiting and employing staff
Get advice and training if you are an employer and you want to retain and recruit employees who are also carers - telephone, email, website
Information about employing an apprentice and how apprenticeship funding works.
You must make sure that anyone you employ to drive a vehicle has the right licence and qualifications - tachographs, lorry, bus, coach, minibus
Advertise a job, Disclosure and Barring (DBS) checks, right to work checks, discrimination law and apprenticeships
Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace
Use their P45 (or starter checklist, which replaced the P46) to get information from your new employee, set them up on your payroll software, tell HMRC.
Find guidance to help decide the employment status of a worker, including employment intermediaries.
How to protect your employment business, and the workers you supply, from non-compliant businesses in your supply chain.
Discrimination policy and equal opportunities in recruitment and in the workplace - age discrimination, disabled workers, gender reassignment, sex discrimination
How to know whether the operatives you deploy are employed or self-employed, and what this means for tax and national insurance.
Tell HMRC if you stop employing people, cancel your PAYE scheme, report a temporary gap in paying staff
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