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Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
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Get your business ready to employ staff - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
Ask your employer to set up a European Works Council if you're an employee or employer in a multinational business - who can apply, valid requests, ballots, special negotiating body, complain, appeal
Employee rights and employer legal obligations - the Information and Consultation of Employee regulations, setting up information and consultation agreements, complaints
Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) was the FCDO-funded women’s economic empowerment programme from 2017 to 2025.
Information about the Civil Service job share finder, and other resources for staff interested in working as a partner in a job share.
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