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Employment agencies and businesses must keep proper records and can be inspected by the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate; the records you must keep, how long to store them and what happens if you're inspected
If you’re running an employment agency or employment business you must…
You only have to keep records of work-seekers if you take action to find…
You must keep the following records about any hirers who contact you with…
Client account records Records for entertainment and modelling agencies…
The Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate checks that employment…
You're required to keep records for all traded goods you declare to HMRC for four years, for duty and tax purposes and for government statistics.
What the public register is, what details you need to give us, and how the public can access this information.
If you were adopted you can access your birth records or get on the Adoption Contact Register to find birth relatives - how to apply, forms and information for birth relatives
Find out what records you must keep about trusts for tax purposes, who can access your information, and what to do if your records are lost or destroyed.
Find out what records and accounts you must keep to support the information that you submit on your Plastic Packaging Tax return.
Find out what records you must keep and how to keep them if you're registered for VAT.
Records and paperwork you must keep if you're self-employed as a sole trader or partner in a business: income, costs, profit, how long to keep records.
Using metadata to make it easier to catalogue, validate, reuse and share your data.
Learn more about money laundering regulations and your responsibilities including the fit and proper test and approval process and report suspicious activity.
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
Find out what information to send to the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) and what records you need to keep as a Dairy Producer Organisation.
How to know whether the operatives you deploy are employed or self-employed, and what this means for tax and national insurance.
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
As an agency worker, you have certain rights when using temp, recruitment agencies or employment agencies to find work - pay, holidays, equal treatment, fees.
Caps on the total amount NHS providers can pay per hour for an agency worker and rules on nursing agency spend.
Get military records of service for the Royal Navy (including Royal Marines), British Army and Royal Air Force - who can apply, how long it takes, cost, how to apply.
How to deal with hazardous waste from your business in England - your duties, licences and registration, storage, collection and transport.
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