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Statutory codes of practice to help employers prevent illegal working and understand the civil penalties they face when they employ illegal workers.
Employer checking service (ECS): check your employee or potential employee's immigration employment status
Employers' guide to Access to Work: money to help disabled people do their jobs.
Working effectively with trade unions; collective bargaining and agreements, informing and consulting, union subs, the check off, political funds, union reps
Employers' responsibilities for diversity monitoring: gender, ethnicity, sexuality and disability balance in the workplace - including data protection
Guidance for reservists and their employers about what happens before, during and after mobilisation, applying to delay or cancel mobilisation, getting financial assistance, reservists' rights during redundancy
Employer guide to Statutory Sick Pay - SSP rates, form SSP1, eligibility, fit notes (formerly sick notes), recover statutory pay.
Find out if, and how, you need to register with HMRC when you start employing people.
You can find up to date information on payroll topics for employers and agents in the employer bulletin magazines.
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
Guidance setting out who can report payroll on paper, instead of online, and how to apply.
How to pay PAYE and National Insurance for employers, including Construction Industry Scheme, student loan deductions, reference numbers, bank details, deadlines and payment booklets.
Use these rates and thresholds when you operate your payroll or provide expenses and benefits to your employees.
This guidance explains actions required if you are given a fit note (Statement of Fitness for Work) by an employee.
Certification Officer (CO) guidance on eligibility, the application process and application form CO1.
Getting a work reference from an employer either while in work or when applying for a new job – and what you can do if you think it's unfair.
Learn more about getting started as an employer or running a small business including registration, payroll, tax returns, tax bills and payments.
Requesting flexible working, how to make an application, what business reasons an employer can give to reject an application and how to appeal.
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