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Explains the requirements to notify the Home Office of arrival and leaving dates for offshore workers in UK waters.
Workers' rights to rest breaks at work - length of breaks, how your age affects rest breaks, exceptions to the rules for shift workers, young people, and drivers
Working time directive and maximum weekly working hours including how to calculate your weekly working hours and working time limits if you're a young worker.
Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments
Find out about agricultural workers' pay and working conditions, labour laws, and health and safety laws.
What qualifies as ordinary commuting and private travel for tax purposes.
Find out about the off-payroll working rules (IR35) for agencies, when the changes to these rules apply and how the changes will affect you.
Owners of UK-flagged fishing vessels are responsible for basic health and safety on board their boats, safe working practices and safety equipment.
The rules for employment agencies and businesses: licences, vulnerable people, opting out, job advertisements, transfer fees, trade unions, terms and conditions and contracts, travel and accommodation for work-seekers
Owners and operators of seagoing ships and large yachts are responsible for the health and safety of seafarers
Check if you should pay National Insurance in the UK or social security contributions in the EU, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, or Switzerland.
Information about the Civil Service job share finder, and other resources for staff interested in working as a partner in a job share.
The off-payroll working rules if you are a contractor or an intermediary and your worker provides services to small clients in the private or voluntary sectors.
Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation
The rights of agricultural and farm workers - including pay rates, agricultural minimum wage, overtime, holiday leave, rest breaks, help and advice
Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
This guidance explains what to do to show you have rights as a frontier 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.
Understand the rules on tax and National Insurance while you're working abroad so you pay the right amount in the right country.
Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace
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