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You may need a child performance licence for any child taking part in a public performance, sporting event or modelling assignment
Employees' rights at work under fixed-term contracts - and what happens if a contract is renewed or ended.
Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments
Where you can work, your rights, healthcare, tax and National Insurance payments.
Correct mistakes with pay and deductions including National Insurance (NI), amend errors in FPS payroll reports, correct payments to HMRC.
The law on smoking in the workplace and what businesses must do to prevent smoking at work
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
Rights for interns and students in the workplace; work experience; work placements; rights to the National Minimum Wage.
Employees can raise a grievance at work when an informal solution is not possible - grievance procedure, mediation, meetings, appeals
Use this form to claim Pension Credit by post if you cannot claim online by phone.
Get information and advice on statutory redundancy pay in England, Scotland and Wales - telephone, opening hours
Disciplinary procedures your employer has at work - disciplinary hearings, appeals, suspension, dismissal and help and advice
The rules for working on Sundays, opt in, opt out arrangements, rules for shop and betting shop workers
Work out your new employee's tax code and starter declaration to set them up on your payroll software and register them with HMRC.
How to dismiss staff fairly, working within dismissal rules and dealing with dismissals relating to whistleblowing
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
Submit an employment intermediary report to HMRC every 3 months if you pay people like agency workers or subcontractors but do not operate PAYE
Guidance for people of State Pension age living outside the UK who have been asked to return a Life Certificate.
Use form SSP2 if you're an employer and need to record details of an employee's sickness absences for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP).
The employment status of au pairs, nannies, carers, personal assistants and other people who work in your home - how to tell if they're an employee or not, what happens with the National Minimum Wage, tax and National In…
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