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Your Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - what you get, how to claim, maternity rights and extra help
Find out if, and how, you need to register with HMRC when you start employing people.
Find out what level of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check you can get for an employee you’re recruiting. Formerly a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check.
Working time directive and maximum weekly working hours including how to calculate your weekly working hours and working time limits if you're a young worker.
Taking up your State Pension later - what you'll get, how to defer, extra State Pension and lump sum payment.
Check if your pay matches the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if your employer owes you payments from the previous year.
What you need to do if you set up as a sole trader - check your employment status, understand your obligations, and register for tax.
Additional State Pension, also known as the State Second Pension or SERPS, is extra money on top of your basic State Pension.
Workplace pensions and automatic enrolment - how you're affected, how pensions are protected, what happens if you move job or go on maternity leave and how to opt out
Your Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave - eligibility, what you get, how to claim.
Being made redundant - rights, statutory payments you're entitled to, notice periods and consultation, finding a job.
Your legal right to time off to care for dependants - when you can take time off, how long you get, your rights
Tell HMRC if you've stopped being self-employed, or you're ending or leaving a business partnership - responsibilities, tax returns, letting any employees know.
Minimum working age and pay for children, how to apply for performance licences and what local council bylaws say about employing children, paying someone over 16
Support from Jobcentre Plus if you're recruiting - including work trials, recruitment advice, Youth Contract and other employment schemes
Understand the letters and numbers in your employee's tax codes, know when to update someone's tax code
You can start Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) if you're eligible and you or your partner ends your maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, starting SPL and split…
Claim money if you've lost your job because your employer has been made insolvent
Plan your retirement income - State Pension, improve your pension, pay National Insurance, check your State Pension age
How to take an employer to a tribunal: the hearing, what happens if you lose your case, how to appeal.
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