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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.
Find out if, and how, you need to register with HMRC when you start employing people.
Your Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - what you get, how to claim, maternity rights and extra help
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.
Being made redundant - rights, statutory payments you're entitled to, notice periods and consultation, finding a job.
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
Taking up your State Pension later - what you'll get, how to defer, extra State Pension and lump sum payment.
Your Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave - eligibility, what you get, how to claim.
What you need to do if you set up as a sole trader - check your employment status, understand your obligations, and register for tax.
There is no law for a minimum or maximum temperature, but during working hours the temperature in all workplaces inside buildings must be reasonable
Your legal right to time off to care for dependants - when you can take time off, how long you get, your rights
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
Understand the letters and numbers in your employee's tax codes, know when to update someone's tax code
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.
Apply for a sponsor licence so you can sponsor foreign workers or students to come and work or study in the UK
Employer and employee guide to unpaid parental leave - eligibility, how much leave can be taken and notice periods, postponing leave
Check if your pay matches the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if your employer owes you payments from the previous year.
Claim money if you've lost your job because your employer has been made insolvent
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…
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