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What you can expect from your employer and what your responsibilities are as an employee. What to do if you think you are being treated unfairly at work.
Your pay - your payslip, performance-related pay, deductions and how to work out your weekly pay
What to do when paying maternity pay if an employee leaves, becomes sick, dies, or is awarded a pay rise.
Get your business ready to employ staff - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance
Guidance on the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage for organisations who offer work experience, including placements and internships.
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...
What to do about tax and National Insurance if you pay an employee free of tax.
Check if you’re the deemed employer and what your responsibilities are if the off-payroll working rules (IR35) apply.
Find out how to work out VAT on supplies of staff including supplies made by staff bureaux.
Apply for a Secondment Worker visa to work for a UK organisation as part of a high-value contract - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
How to calculate your employee's Statutory Sick Pay if you cannot use the GOV.UK calculator.
Apply for a Temporary Work - Creative Worker visa to work in the UK in the creative industry - eligibility, extend, bring your family.
Find out about different rules for entitlement for some employment types like agency workers, directors and educational workers.
Find out about the legal background to expenses payments and benefits received by directors and employees.
Taking time off work for public duties (for example as a magistrate, school governor or on jury service) - rights and responsibilities for employees and employers
A contract is an agreement between employee and employer setting out implied and explicit terms and conditions - written statement of particulars, collective agreements
Find out how to work out and make PAYE deductions for employees who come to work in the UK.
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