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Get your business ready to employ staff - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
How to know whether the operatives you deploy are employed or self-employed, and what this means for tax and national insurance.
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
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
Check if you need a visa or permit to work in Croatia and how to get one if you do.
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
Find out how to work out VAT on supplies of staff including supplies made by staff bureaux.
Includes pay, contracts, hiring and redundancies
Advertise a job, Disclosure and Barring (DBS) checks, right to work checks, discrimination law and apprenticeships
The benefits of recruiting people who have served in the armed forces and services offered by the Career Transition Partnership (CTP).
The Government Recruitment Service (GRS) was launched in September 2017 and is part of Civil Service HR in the Cabinet Office. As an ‘in-house’ provider, GRS works to meet recruitment needs across government. We deliver around 70 per cent of...
Guidance you should consider when considering the employee shareholder employment status.
Employee rights and employer legal obligations - the Information and Consultation of Employee regulations, setting up information and consultation agreements, complaints
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...
Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Find out if you're an employment intermediary and what you need to do to make sure your worker's tax and National Insurance is paid correctly.
Guidance for employers on employing someone outside the UK.
This guidance explains what providers of children’s homes must do under the law when recruiting and employing staff.
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