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How schools can get value for money, avoid fees and find local agencies who complete thorough background and safeguarding checks.
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
If you run an employment agency or employment business you have to follow…
Some employment agencies need a licence if they are supplying specific…
Before placing a work-seeker with a hirer, you must get sufficient…
Before you supply work-seekers to work with vulnerable people you have to:…
Work-seekers registered as limited companies are also covered by the rules…
You must not advertise a job without the full details of the position. You…
If you run an employment business you can sometimes charge a transfer fee…
Employment businesses’ terms and conditions with work-seekers If you run…
You cannot refuse to provide services to work-seekers or to provide them…
You can charge for other services like CV writing and transport to jobs.…
You must not introduce or supply a work-seeker to a hirer unless you’ve…
Accommodation When a job involves working away from home and the…
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
Find out how to apply VAT if you're in the taxi and private hire car trade.
Find a supplier who can provide a user research studio through the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework.
Guidance for employers. You need to have a sponsor licence to hire workers from outside the UK.
Advertise a job, Disclosure and Barring (DBS) checks, right to work checks, discrimination law and apprenticeships
Information for entertainers and musicians, from non-visa national countries, such as EU Member States and the US, visiting the UK for performance and work.
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...
This Spend Control ceased as a requirement on 1st February 2023. Other Cabinet Office Spending Controls remain operational.
Information about employing an apprentice and how apprenticeship funding works.
Support from Jobcentre Plus if you're recruiting - including work trials, recruitment advice, Youth Contract and other employment schemes
Find out the basic rules of VAT, how they apply to clubs and associations, and how to treat VAT on subscriptions and other payments.
Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.
The Hub enables forces-friendly organisations across all sectors to showcase the continued value of the UK’s highly skilled veteran community.
Information and guidance for those looking for a job
How to find digital outcome, specialist and user research services on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework.
Check what you need to do to employ teachers who are non-UK citizens.
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
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