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Find out how to work out VAT on supplies of staff including supplies made by staff bureaux.
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
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
Learn more about getting started as an employer or running a small business including registration, payroll, tax returns, tax bills and payments.
You can receive an unlimited fine for employing an illegal worker - find out what happens and what you can do
Find out if, and how, you need to register with HMRC when you start employing people.
This guidance highlights the benefits of working with prisons and hiring ex-offenders to help fill skills gaps and reduce re-offending.
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.
A Guide for Employers and Employees to the role of the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) for these regulations
This guide provides useful facts for employers about the reserve forces.
PAYE for employers, getting started, reporting and paying HMRC, expenses and benefits
What you can expect from your employer and what your responsibilities are as an employee. What to do if you think you are being treated unfairly at work.
Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
Employees working for one employer without a break, employments rights for continuous services, breaks that do not affect continuous service
Resignations, dismissals, disciplinaries and redundancy pay
Find out about how and what you’ll be paid and how to check your pay when you’re employed by an umbrella company as a temporary worker.
Guidance you should consider when considering the employee shareholder employment status.
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