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The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation
Employee rights and employer legal obligations - the Information and Consultation of Employee regulations, setting up information and consultation agreements, complaints
Get your business ready to employ staff - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance
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.
PAYE if your employees work abroad, including applying for exemption in the other country.
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing awards for employee suggestions
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing gifts to employees
Requesting flexible working, how to make an application, what business reasons an employer can give to reject an application and how to appeal.
Guidance you should consider when considering the employee shareholder employment status.
Find out how to work out and make PAYE deductions for employees who come to work in the UK.
Legal rights for pregnant employees - including paid time off for antenatal appointments, maternity leave and pay, protection against discrimination and telling the employer about the pregnancy.
Employers might monitor workers, but if the monitoring involves taking data, images or drug testing they have to do this in a way that's legal and fair
Use this calculator to work out employee National Insurance contributions, if you're an employee, employer, or a software developer.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing loans to employees
If you're an employer and provide expenses or benefits to employees or directors, you might need to tell HMRC and pay tax and National Insurance on them
Handling employees' grievances at work - setting up a grievance procedure, holding a grievance hearing and managing appeals
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing meals for employees and directors
Understand the letters and numbers in your employee's tax codes, know when to update someone's tax code
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