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Employee rights and employer legal obligations - the Information and Consultation of Employee regulations, setting up information and consultation agreements, complaints
Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation
PAYE if your employees work abroad, including applying for exemption in the other country.
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
Get your business ready to employ staff - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance
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.
Requesting flexible working, how to make an application, what business reasons an employer can give to reject an application and how to appeal.
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing gifts to employees
Legal rights for pregnant employees - including paid time off for antenatal appointments, maternity leave and pay, protection against discrimination and telling the employer about the pregnancy.
Employers might monitor workers, but if the monitoring involves taking data, images or drug testing they have to do this in a way that's legal and fair
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing loans to employees
Find out how to work out and make PAYE deductions for employees who come to work in the UK.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing meals for employees and directors
Use this calculator to work out employee National Insurance contributions, if you're an employee, employer, or a software developer.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing awards for employee suggestions
Personal data an employer can keep about an employee, and employee rights to see this information under data protection rules
Tax and reporting rules for employers who make assets available to employees
Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy
How employment contracts can be changed, problems with changes and breach of contract
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