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What new employers need to do for PAYE, including choosing whether to run payroll yourself, paying someone for the first time and keeping records.

• Introduction to PAYE

  As an employer, you normally have to operate PAYE as part of your payroll.…

• Choose how to run payroll

  You can operate PAYE by either: paying a payroll provider to do it for you…

• Setting up payroll

  If you decide to run payroll yourself, you need to complete certain tasks…

• Keeping records

  You must collect and keep records of: what you pay your employees and the…

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

• Overview

  Employers might monitor workers. This could be done in various ways, like:…

• Drug testing

  Employers have to have consent if they want to test for drugs. Usually…

• Email, CCTV and other monitoring

  Employers must explain the amount of monitoring clearly in the staff…

Discrimination policy and equal opportunities in recruitment and in the workplace - age discrimination, disabled workers, gender reassignment, sex discrimination

• Overview

  It is against the law to treat someone less favourably than someone else…

• Discrimination in recruitment

  Discrimination in job adverts You must not state or imply in a job advert…

• Discrimination in work

  You must not discriminate against your workers. This could be done by, for…

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

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

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

Personal data an employer can keep about an employee, and employee rights to see this information under data protection rules

Employer's responsibilities during the process of union recognition.

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

How and why you should conduct a right to work check.

• Updated: 28 March 2023