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Find out what steps you need to take before you calculate how much you can claim for furloughed and flexibly furloughed employees.
Information for employers on checking EU, EEA and Swiss citizens’ right to work.
The process for recruiters to review and record the progress of pre-employment checks in Civil Service Jobs vX.
What to do when paying maternity pay if an employee leaves, becomes sick, dies, or is awarded a pay rise.
Calculate how much you have to pay your furloughed employees for hours on furlough and how much you can claim back.
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.
How to claim a refund in the current tax year if you are not getting taxable benefits or a pension from your employer and you've not started a new job (P50).
Find out how to manually calculate Statutory Maternity Pay if your payroll software or the GOV.UK calculator does not work out your employee’s payments.
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
Find out how to work out and make PAYE deductions for employees who come to work in the UK.
The process for a recruiter to confirm applicant type, issue forms, and identify when a candidate has provided their information.
Dismissal is when your employer ends your employment - reasons you can be dismissed, unfair and constructive dismissal and what to do if you're dismissed
When to apply the off-payroll working rules (IR35) if you receive services from a worker through their intermediary.
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
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Working while taking your pension, State Pension age, retirement age, how long you can work, tax and national insurance, flexible working, discrimination
Guidance for employers providing share based payments to former employees.
Get details of your employment history from HMRC if you need to make a claim for compensation.
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
What to do if an employer ceases, becomes insolvent, takes over an existing business or makes employees redundant whilst paying Statutory Maternity Pay.
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