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The rules for employment agencies and businesses: licences, vulnerable people, opting out, job advertisements, transfer fees, trade unions, terms and conditions and contracts, travel and accommodation for work-seekers
If you run an employment agency or employment business you have to follow…
Some employment agencies need a licence if they are supplying specific…
Before placing a work-seeker with a hirer, you must get sufficient…
Before you supply work-seekers to work with vulnerable people you have to:…
Work-seekers registered as limited companies are also covered by the rules…
You must not advertise a job without the full details of the position. You…
If you run an employment business you can sometimes charge a transfer fee…
Employment businesses’ terms and conditions with work-seekers If you run…
You cannot refuse to provide services to work-seekers or to provide them…
You can charge for other services like CV writing and transport to jobs.…
You must not introduce or supply a work-seeker to a hirer unless you’ve…
Accommodation When a job involves working away from home and the…
Includes employment status, workers' rights and changes to contracts
The Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme is the flagship women’s economic empowerment programme funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace
What you can expect from your employer and what your responsibilities are as an employee. What to do if you think you are being treated unfairly at work.
Use employment related securities (ERS) to reward, retain or give incentives to your employees, including any tax advantages.
A contract is an agreement between employee and employer setting out implied and explicit terms and conditions - written statement of particulars, collective agreements
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