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Flexible working policy
Considerations for employers when introducing a flexible working policy and example templates.
Support employee work-life balance
How employers can encourage and support a better work-life balance for their staff and the advantages a healthy work-life balance can bring to the workplace.
Work-life balance: Implement a flexible working policy
How employers can implement a flexible working policy to help promote a healthy work-life balance for their staff - includes a flexible working policy template.
Seven tips to improve work-life balance for employees
Practical tips to help employers encourage a work-life balance amongst their staff.
Identify work-life balance problems
Signs that can tell employers that their staff are suffering from a poor work-life balance.
Employing and supporting LGBTQIA+ workers
How employers can develop an inclusive workplace environment and support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and/or asexual (LGBTQIA+) staff.
Skills for Life and Work: Providing work experience for young people
Helping employers in Northern Ireland provide work experience for school leavers aged 16-17 years old (and under 22 and 24 years old for those with extended eligibility).
Industrial disputes
How to avoid industrial disputes and collective grievances with sections of your workforce, and how to resolve them.
National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage - calculating minimum wage pay
How to calculate the minimum wage and use reference periods to work out if they have been met.
Pay that does not count towards the minimum wage - overtime and shift rates
Examples of how to calculate minimum wage for overtime and shift rates.
National Minimum Wage and Living Wage pay reference periods - timesheets
The minimum wage and what happens when time worked is recorded in timesheets.
National Minimum Wage and Living Wage pay reference periods - bonuses
Bonuses and the minimum wage.
National Minimum Wage and Living Wage pay reference period
The pay reference period when calculating the minimum wage.
Deductions and payments that reduce minimum wage pay
Examples of the deductions by a worker that reduce minimum wage pay.
What counts as minimum wage pay
Explanation of what counts as minimum wage pay and what doesn't.
How to make deductions
When employers will receive a deduction from earnings order from CMS, what they should do with it and why it might need to be amended.
National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage - who is not entitled to it
People who are not entitled to the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage.
National Minimum Wage and Living Wage - time spent travelling on business
Time spent travelling on business and the minimum wage.
Deductions not connected to a worker's employment or for the employer's benefit
Pay deductions and the minimum wage.
Deductions and payments that do not reduce minimum wage pay
The minimum wage and deductions and payments that do not reduce minimum wage pay.