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Get your business ready to employ staff - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance

Tips at work do not count towards the National Minimum Wage - tips and tax, what your employer has to do, advice and help, cash in hand payments

• Overview

  If you get tips at work they do not count towards the National Minimum…

• Tips and tax

  You have to pay Income Tax on any tips you get, and may have to pay…

Your rights to request time off for training or study while in a job

• Who can and cannot ask for time off to train

  Staff may have the right to ask for time off work for training or study.…

• Asking for time off

  Employees should follow their organisation’s rules to ask for time off. If…

• Employer's decision and responsibilities

  The employer has 28 days to: accept the request hold a meeting with the…

• Appealing the decision

  Employees have the right to appeal if their employer refuses a request to…

This guidance explains what providers of children’s homes must do under the law when recruiting and employing staff.

• Updated: 15 June 2023

Get help at work, including an Access to Work grant, if you have a disability or health condition - eligibility, how to apply.

The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before

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.

Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay

Part-time workers should not be treated less favourably than full-time workers; employers' responsibilities and what part-time workers can do if they're treated unfairly

How employers must handle written and verbal staff resignations, business transfers and redundancy pay

Get COVID-19 testing kits so you can test the residents and staff of a care home

Travel disruption and work - employee rights, employer rights, paid and unpaid holiday entitlement, winter weather

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

Find out about help you can get moving from benefits to work - work trials, programmes and clubs, New Enterprise Allowance, help with drug or alcohol problems, carer support

Statistics on Employment Schemes, New Enterprise Allowance, pre-Work Programme mandatory programmes, Youth Offer, Youth Contract and Get Britain Working.

• Updated: 15 June 2022

How employment contracts can be changed, problems with changes and breach of contract

Get a refund of the immigration health surcharge (IHS) if you work in health and care - eligibility, what you’ll get and how to apply.

Whistleblowing - what it is, who to tell, what to expect and how to complain if you're treated unfairly

What you can do if an employee is called up for jury service, and how to sort out their pay or help them claim an allowance

Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.