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When and how to tell HMRC about new employment related securities (ERS) schemes, or schemes that have ceased.
Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
Working while taking your pension, State Pension age, retirement age, how long you can work, tax and national insurance, flexible working, discrimination
When an employee leaves or retires, update your payroll, give the employee a P45.
Ask HMRC to confirm that you, or if you’re an employer, your employee pays only UK National Insurance contributions whilst working temporarily in an EU country, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
What to do if an employer ceases, becomes insolvent, takes over an existing business or makes employees redundant whilst paying Statutory Maternity Pay.
Guidance for recruiters on how to set up online pre-employment checking forms using Civil Service Jobs vX.
More detailed information about New Style Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) for stakeholders and claimants.
Find out about different rules for entitlement that affect some employment types, including agency workers, directors and educational workers.
Use this if your payroll software or the GOV.UK calculator does not calculate your employee’s payments.
When a business changes owner, employees could be protected under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations (TUPE) - types of transfers, your rights, contracts, redundancy, where to get help
Getting a work reference from an employer either while in work or when applying for a new job – and what you can do if you think it's unfair.
What you need to do when paying sick pay to an employee who’s pregnant, in legal custody, in a trade dispute, has overpaid or underpaid, or earns below the Lower Earnings Limit.
If your employer is 'insolvent' this means it cannot pay its debts - your rights if this happens, claiming money owed to you, where to get advice
What to do when an employee leaves, is reinstated, has a break in employment, works for someone else, is sick or goes abroad.
Where you can work, your rights, healthcare, tax and National Insurance payments.
Guidance for reservists and their employers about what happens before, during and after mobilisation, applying to delay or cancel mobilisation, getting financial assistance, reservists' rights during redundancy
Employees' rights at work under fixed-term contracts - and what happens if a contract is renewed or ended
This guidance explains what providers of children’s homes must do under the law when recruiting and employing staff.
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