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Finances and funding for Apprenticeships
An incentive payment will be available for employers whose employees successfully complete the Level 2 and Level 3 Apprenticeship programmes.
Business benefits of apprenticeships
Apprenticeships can help all types of businesses across a wide range of sectors harness fresh new talent.
National Minimum Wage: previous rates
Minimum wage rates for previous years from 1999 to the current period.
What is an equality plan?
Your equality plan allows you to integrate equality into your performance management system and corporate planning processes.
Implement an equality plan
How to develop an equality plan and how it can benefit your employees and your business.
Create staff forums
How you can use employee forums to seek ideas to streamline your operations and boost business performance.
Get help to review your equality-related workplace policies
How to access help and advice from the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland to develop and improve workplace equality policies.
Equality monitoring and review of your business
Monitoring can help you to identify equality issues or problems that affect your employees.
Advantages of workplace equality plans
Developing a workplace equality plan can bring a number of benefits to your business.
How to develop an equality plan
Practical steps to develop a workplace equality plan tailored to the specific needs of your business.
Redundancy: the options
Employer legal obligations when making employees redundant.
What is redundancy?
Explanation of redundancy and the reasons for dismissing staff on the grounds of redundancy.
Avoiding redundancies
Alternatives to compulsory redundancy.
Rights of redundant employees
The employee's right to statutory redundancy payments, other redundancy-related rights, and how employers can calculate payments.
Redundancy selection: compulsory
How employers can fairly select employees for compulsory redundancy.
Redundancy selection: non compulsory
Pros and cons of voluntary redundancy and early retirement options.
Redundancy and short-time working
Contract and statutory issues relating to short-time working, including statutory guarantee and redundancy payments.
The redundancy consultation process
Redundancy consultation and other legal obligations during the redundancy process.
Redundancy and lay-offs
Contractual and statutory issues for laying off employees, including statutory guarantee and redundancy payments.
Shift work involving Sunday and/or night work
Understand shift systems that can be used to plan Sunday and/or night work and how to design one for your employees.