Employees joining, leaving or changing their circumstances

Services

  • 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

  • Working out a director's National Insurance, using their annual earnings period, what to report to HMRC.

  • 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.

  • When an employee leaves or retires, update your payroll, give the employee a P45.

  • Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC

Guidance and regulation