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Get your business ready to employ staff - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing accommodation for employees
When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.
Grievances and disciplinary action at work can be solved by informal discussions, formal procedures, mediation, conciliation or arbitration.
Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) for business properties - apply, exemptions, displaying a certificate, fines and penalties
How to dismiss staff fairly, working within dismissal rules and dealing with dismissals relating to whistleblowing
When an employee leaves or retires, update your payroll, give the employee a P45.
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
When you can be disqualified from being a director of a company - how the process works, investigations, what happens if you're banned
How to pay a PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA), including payment methods, reference numbers, bank details and deadlines.
Tell HMRC if you stop employing people, cancel your PAYE scheme, report a temporary gap in paying staff
The King's Awards for Enterprise - how to enter, online entry forms, guidance notes, deadline, nominations, award categories
What to do if you're an employer who has been taken to an employment tribunal. Find out about the hearing, what happens if you lose your case and how to appeal.
Support from Jobcentre Plus if you're recruiting - including work trials, recruitment advice, Youth Contract and other employment schemes
Paying Corporation Tax when your limited company sells an asset for more than it paid - includes chargeable gains, intangible assets, working out inflation
Tax and reporting rules for employers lending or hiring bicycles to employees
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing social functions, including annual parties, for employees
Use this form to register a statement of satisfaction in full or in part of a mortgage or charge against a company. Include the optional continuation pages if needed.
What you can do if an employee is called up for jury service, and how to sort out their pay or help them claim an allowance
Accommodation provided by an employer can affect the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage: offset rates, accommodation charges.
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