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Staff and business development: further education courses
The further education colleges and three main universities in Northern Ireland offer a wide range of accredited and bespoke courses that can be tailored to your staff and business needs.
Selling fireworks
Fireworks retailing rules and responsibilities for businesses in Northern Ireland including how to apply for a licence to sell fireworks legally and safe storage.
Your responsibilities to employees transferred out of your business
What you have to do if all or some of your employees transfer to another employer.
Informing and consulting employees about business transfers
Which workplace representatives you must consult and what you should tell them.
Changing terms and conditions after a business transfer
When you can change employees' terms and conditions of employment following a business transfer.
The transfer of employee liability information
The information you must provide to the new employer when you transfer employees out of your business.
Checklist: starting a social enterprise
A checklist of key questions you should consider to help you succeed when setting up a social enterprise
Advertise a job on JobApplyNI.com
Submit and manage your job vacancies for free online to fill your posts more easily.
Working with non-union representatives
How consulting employees and their representatives can encourage a trusting and co-operative business environment.
Calculate final pay when a worker leaves
Deductions to make from outstanding pay owed when an employee leaves the business.
Making deductions from a worker's pay
Legally required deductions such as National Insurance and income tax.
Employee representatives
Understand the role of employee representatives and situations when you may need to consult them on issues affecting your workforce.
Handling grievances
How to keep staff and maintain morale by resolving grievances effectively and quickly.
Pregnancy at work
Pregnant employees' rights in relation to health and safety, antenatal care, and dismissal/discrimination.
Employees' right to paid time off for antenatal care
A pregnant employee is entitled to paid time off to attend antenatal care appointments during working hours.
Grievance procedures and the employment contract
How to communicate your grievance procedure and whether or not to make it contractual.
Health and safety of pregnant workers
Employers' additional health and safety obligations towards pregnant workers and female workers of childbearing age.
Medical suspension on maternity grounds
When an employee who is pregnant, or has recently given birth, or who is breast-feeding may have to be suspended from work on maternity grounds.
Appeals against grievance decisions
What an employer can do when an employee appeals against the decision of the first grievance hearing.
Writing your grievance procedure
A grievance procedure deals with grievances in a fair and reasonable manner.