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Get your business ready to employ staff - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
Guidance for employers. You need to have a sponsor licence to hire workers from outside the UK.
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.
Find what you or your business may need before you hire someone to act directly or indirectly on your behalf.
Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
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...
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.
Find out how you can hire a person or business to deal with customs for you.
Overview of the public service vehicle operator licensing system.
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
Find out how to apply VAT if you're in the taxi and private hire car trade.
Strikes and industrial action - rights and responsibilities for employers, when unions can take action and the effect on employees' pay and working records
Find out how to work out VAT on supplies of staff including supplies made by staff bureaux.
What qualifies as ordinary commuting and private travel for tax purposes.
When to apply the off-payroll working rules (IR35) if you receive services from a worker through their intermediary.
An overview of the process for registering and operating local bus services in England and Wales
How to hire the people you need in a multidisciplinary service team.
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