We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
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
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
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
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
Advertise a job, Disclosure and Barring (DBS) checks, right to work checks, discrimination law and apprenticeships
Find out if you're an employment intermediary and what you need to do to make sure your worker's tax and National Insurance is paid correctly.
How to protect your employment business, and the workers you supply, from non-compliant businesses in your supply chain.
How to know whether the operatives you deploy are employed or self-employed, and what this means for tax and national insurance.
How schools can get value for money, avoid fees and find local agencies who complete thorough background and safeguarding checks.
Employee rights and employer legal obligations - the Information and Consultation of Employee regulations, setting up information and consultation agreements, complaints
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...
Includes pay, contracts, hiring and redundancies
A contract is an agreement between employee and employer setting out implied and explicit terms and conditions - written statement of particulars, collective agreements
Employees' rights at work under fixed-term contracts - and what happens if a contract is renewed or ended
Guidance you should consider when considering the employee shareholder employment status.
Apply to set up an arrangement with your employer to be kept informed and to be consulted
Use the Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool to find out if you, or a worker on a specific engagement, should be classed as employed or self-employed for tax purposes.
Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace
Rights of employees when accepting conditional and unconditional job offers and about breach of contract
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).