Advertise a job
- Advertise a job and Jobcentre Plus Services
- Advertising a job and interviewing candidates
Take on staff
- Help with Recruitment
- Taking on staff – the options
- Making a job offer and getting new workers started
- Recruit and employ apprentices
- Employment status
- Using contractors and subcontractors
- Understanding fixed-term contracts
Different types of worker
- Employing older workers
- Employing young people
- Employing family members and voluntary staff
- Employing migrants – an overview
- Employing a member of the Reserve Forces
- Recruiting ex-offenders
- Recruiting directors
- Employment agencies and employment businesses
- Running an employment agency or business
- Entertainment and modelling agencies
- Record keeping, compliance and enforcement
Employment checks
- Pre-employment checks
- Ensuring your workers are eligible to work in the UK
- Check the eligibility of your workers
- Criminal records checks
- Identity verification and passport checking services
Staff documents and employment policies
- The employment contract
- Create a written statement of employment
- Keep the right staff records
- Set up employment policies for your business
- Monitoring and security of staff
Pay and pensions
- Pay – an overview of obligations
- Set the right pay rates
- Set up employee share schemes
- Implement staff incentive schemes
- Make child maintenance deductions from an employee’s pay
- Understand statutory sick pay when paying it
- Know your legal obligations on pensions
- Choose the right pension scheme
- Running a pension scheme
- Introduction to Combined Pension Forecasting
National minimum wage
- National minimum wage entitlement, rate and arrears checker
- National minimum wage – national minimum wage rates and overview
- National minimum wage – who must be paid the national minimum wage
- National minimum wage – who need not get the national minimum wage
- National minimum wage – calculating national minimum wage pay – the basics
- National minimum wage – hours for which the national minimum wage must be paid – time work
- National minimum wage – hours for which the national minimum wage must be paid – output work
- National minimum wage – hours for which the national minimum wage must be paid – unmeasured work
- National minimum wage – hours for which the national minimum wage must be paid – salaried-hours work
- National minimum wage – benefits in kind and accommodation
- National minimum wage – record keeping
- National minimum wage – enforcement
- National minimum wage – volunteers and voluntary workers and the national minimum wage
- National minimum wage – work experience – internships – and the national minimum wage
- National minimum wage – work experience and national minimum wage – examples
Holiday and other leave
- Know how much holiday to give your staff
- Calculate your employees’ holiday entitlement
- Allowing time off work
- Manage absence and sickness
- Parental leave and time off for dependants
- If a Reservist employee is called up for service
- Consider time for training
Working time
- Hours, rest breaks and the working week
- Flexible working – the law and best practice
- Choose the right type of flexible working
- Employing part-time workers
- Sunday working and night working
- Manage overtime
- Employees working from home
- Meet the need for work/life balance
Equality and diversity
- Prevent discrimination and value diversity
- Support available from Jobcentre Plus to employ or retain someone who is disabled
- Assess your gender equality performance
Maternity, paternity and adoption
- Pregnancy at work
- Managing expectant and new mothers at work
- Maternity leave and pay
- Ordinary paternity leave and pay
- Adoption leave and pay
- Managing paternity and adoption leave and pay
- Additional paternity leave entitlement
- Employee rights during additional paternity leave
Employee engagement
- Employee engagement – an overview
- Create and communicate your strategic narrative
- Become a more engaging manager
- Establish employee voice in your business
- Create and communicate business values with integrity
Staff motivation and performance
- Managing the performance of your staff
- Control staff turnover
- Improve employee health and well-being
- Lead and motivate your staff
- Using mentoring to boost employee performance
- How Investors in People can help your business
- Create a personal development plan
- Sending staff on international business trips
Trade unions
- Work effectively with trade unions
- Trade union membership rights
- Recognising and de-recognising a trade union
- Industrial disputes
- Applications for trade union recognition
Redundancy, restructures and change
- Reorganisations, restructurings and other major changes
- Inform and consult your employees
- Working with non-union representatives
- Redundancy: the options
- Calculate the statutory redundancy pay due to your employee
- Change an employee’s terms of employment
- Continuous employment and employee rights
- Responsibilities to employees if you buy or sell a business
Skills and development
- Training your staff
- Advice and funding for training
- Finding tailored skills support from a National Skills Academy
- Skills and training for directors and owners
- Learning through networking with others
- High level skills
- Qualifications
- Support the delivery of primary, secondary and further education
Problems at work
- Managing conflict
- Bullying and harassment
- Handling grievances
- Disciplinary procedures, hearings and appeals
- Employment tribunal claims – the basics
- Employment tribunal claims – the process
- Employment tribunal claims – the outcomes
Dismissals and staff leaving
- Dismissal
- Issue the correct periods of notice
- Workers leaving: the basics
- When an employee resigns
- When an employee retires
- When an employee dies
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