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These factsheets are about employment status, a term HMRC uses to decide if a worker is employed or self-employed.
Claiming Universal Credit if you're self-employed - eligibility, reporting your earnings, start up periods
The Ministry of Defence's future update to its employment package, to support and motivate service personnel.
Get your business ready to employ staff - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance
Find out about the ending of COVID-19 easements for Save As You Earn share option schemes and Enterprise Management Incentive share option schemes.
Find out about different rules for entitlement for some employment types like agency workers, directors and educational workers.
A comparison of the numbers of self-employed broken down by length of time in employment.
Call or write to HMRC to check if you or someone else is classed as employed or self-employed
A series of publications relating to the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act.
Overview of OTS work relating to simplifying tax reporting and payments for self-employed people.
A comparison by age of numbers self-employed with the newly self-employed.
Guidance you should consider when considering the employee shareholder employment status.
These manuals contain guidance on dealing with employment related securities.
Information on eligibility criteria and offer details of the Afghanistan Locally Employed Staff Ex-Gratia Scheme.
We are a publicly funded, industry-led organisation that offers guidance on skills and employment issues in the UK.
The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) Corporation is the trustee of the NEST occupational pension scheme. The scheme, which is run on a not-for-profit basis, ensures that all employers have access to suitable, low-charge pension provision to meet their new...
Rights for interns and students in the workplace; work experience; work placements; rights to the National Minimum Wage.
Some employment types like agency workers, directors and educational workers, have different rules for entitlements.
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