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Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes
Tax advantages on employee share schemes including Share Incentive Plans, Save As You Earn, Company Share Option Plans and Enterprise Management Incentives
Where to find work, who can help you and how to access skills based training for employment.
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Minimum working age and pay for children, how to apply for performance licences and what local council bylaws say about employing children, paying someone over 16
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
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
Guidance documents and updates for Sellafield Ltd employees.
Employees' rights at work under fixed-term contracts - and what happens if a contract is renewed or ended
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
Your rights to request time off for training or study while in a job
Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments
What to do when paying maternity pay if an employee leaves, becomes sick, dies, or is awarded a pay rise.
Regular payroll tasks - record employee pay, calculate deductions, give payslips, report to and pay HMRC, view the balance of what you owe HMRC.
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