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Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA) and deducting any money an employee owes the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) from their pay
If you provide company cars to your employees, use form P46 (Car) to tell HMRC
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.
Check your local council for advice on becoming a licensed chaperone for children in the entertainment, modelling or sports
What to do if you're an employer who has been taken to an employment tribunal. Find out about the hearing, what happens if you lose your case and how to appeal.
Get ready to employ someone - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance.
Checks employers might need to run on job applicants, including right to work in the UK, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS - formerly CRB) checks and health checks
Find HMRC-recognised payroll software to manage your Real Time Information (RTI) PAYE payments and deductions.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing company cars, including fuel
Working out a director's National Insurance, using their annual earnings period, what to report to HMRC.
Your insurance must cover you for at least £5 million - check authorised insurers and how you can be fined
Regular payroll tasks - record employee pay, calculate deductions, give payslips, report to and pay HMRC, view the balance of what you owe HMRC.
You can receive an unlimited fine for employing an illegal worker - find out what happens and what you can do
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
PAYE Settlement Agreements (PSA) allow employers to make an annual payment to HRMC for some types of expenses and benefits - apply, renew, deadlines
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.
Grievances and disciplinary action at work can be solved by informal discussions, formal procedures, mediation, conciliation or arbitration.
What you must do by law with a deductions from earnings order (DEO or AEO) to make child maintenance deductions from your employee's pay.
When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.
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