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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
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
Includes pay, contracts, hiring and redundancies
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
Guidance for employers on employing someone outside the UK.
Follow employment laws and plan for risks when employing paid workers at your charity.
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
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.
Find out how to work out VAT on supplies of staff including supplies made by staff bureaux.
This series brings together all documents relating to Defra: recruiting and employing staff
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Advertise a job, Disclosure and Barring (DBS) checks, right to work checks, discrimination law and apprenticeships
How to protect your employment business, and the workers you supply, from non-compliant businesses in your supply chain.
The employment status of au pairs, nannies, carers, personal assistants and other people who work in your home - how to tell if they're an employee or not, what happens with the National Minimum Wage, tax and National Insurance, what...
This guidance explains what providers of children’s homes must do under the law when recruiting and employing staff.
Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
A contract is an agreement between employee and employer setting out implied and explicit terms and conditions - written statement of particulars, collective agreements
How to know whether the operatives you deploy are employed or self-employed, and what this means for tax and national insurance.
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.
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