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Employing people

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Business Link East offers a comprehensive range of information, advice and guidance regarding all employment of people matters including:

  • Taking on staff - the options
  • Check your legal responsibilities when taking on an employee
  • Widen your choice of employees to improve competitiveness
  • Recruiting and interviewing
  • Employing young people, family members and voluntary staff
  • Ensuring your workers are eligible to work in the UK
  • Getting new workers started
  • Create a written statement of employment
  • Employment status
  • Make a job offer and pre-employment checks
  • The employment contract
  • Set the right pay rates
  • Understanding National Minimum Wage law
  • Pay - an overview of obligations
  • PAYE & National Insurance
  • Pension schemes
  • Running a pension scheme
  • Set up employment policies for your business
  • Manage absence and sickness
  • Allowing time off work
  • Maternity, paternity and adoption - an overview
  • Equal opportunities
  • Health, safety and working environment
  • Employee representatives and trade unions
  • Organisational change
  • Dismissals, redundancies and other exits
  • Disciplinary problems, disputes and grievances

For more information on the above and how Business Link East can help your business with employing people and employee relations, visit their website.

her useful links to external websites

Advisery Conciliation & Arbitration Service
Health & Safety Executive




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