Employ people

Hire staff, pay people, and meet employer duties

Recruiting and pre-employment checks

• Advertise a job
• Employ someone: step by step
• Checking a job applicant's right to work
• Use the Employer Checking Service
• UK visa sponsorship for employers
• Check someone's criminal record as an employer
• Employers: preventing discrimination

Contracts, tax and insurance

• Contract types and employer responsibilities
• Check employment status for tax
• Starter checklist if you’re starting a new job
• National Minimum Wage and Living Wage calculator for employers
• Employers' liability insurance
• Employing an apprentice

Run payroll and pensions

• PAYE and payroll for employers
• Find payroll software
• National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates
• Set up and manage a workplace pension scheme
• Expenses and benefits: A to Z
• Employment Allowance

Working time, leave and wellbeing

• Holiday entitlement
• Flexible working
• Statutory Sick Pay (SSP): employer guide
• Statutory Maternity Pay and Leave: employer guide
• Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave: employer guide
• Adoption pay and leave
• Unpaid carer’s leave
• Maternity, Adoption and paternity calculator for employers
• Reasonable adjustments for workers with disabilities or health conditions

Workplace problems and trade unions

• Solve a workplace dispute
• Taking disciplinary action against an employee
• Workplace bullying and harassment
• Employers: recognise a trade union
• Working with trade unions: employers
• Derecognise a union
• Being taken to an employment tribunal

Redundancy and ending employment

• Dismissing staff
• Making staff redundant
• Calculate your employee’s statutory redundancy pay
• What to do when an employee leaves