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How to attract, recruit and retain disabled people.
Information about employing an apprentice and how apprenticeship funding works.
Minimum working age and pay for children, how to apply for performance licences and what local council bylaws say about employing children, paying someone over 16
Find out how to work out and make PAYE deductions for employees who come to work in the UK.
Advertise a job, Disclosure and Barring (DBS) checks, right to work checks, discrimination law and apprenticeships
This series brings together all documents relating to Defra: recruiting and employing staff
The benefits of recruiting people who have served in the armed forces and services offered by the Career Transition Partnership (CTP).
This guidance highlights the benefits of working with prisons and hiring ex-offenders to help fill skills gaps and reduce re-offending.
Find out if, and how, you need to register with HMRC when you start employing people.
Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace
Includes maternity and paternity leave, holiday entitlement and sick pay
Make sure a job applicant can work in the UK - check they have the right documents and make sure you're not prosecuted for employing an illegal worker.
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.
PAYE for employers, getting started, reporting and paying HMRC, expenses and benefits
Case studies and promotional material for 'See what's on the inside', the ex-offender employment campaign, which highlights the benefits of hiring prisoners and ex-offenders.
A practical guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition.
This guidance explains what providers of children’s homes must do under the law when recruiting and employing staff.
Quarterly reports showing the total number of fines (also known as civil penalties) for illegal working issued to non-compliant employers in each region of the UK.
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