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Set the right pay rates
This guide covers what to consider when setting pay rates and describes the different systems and schemes.
Commission, bonuses, tips and gratuities
Dealing with commission, tips, gratuities, and bonus payments.
Advantages of reviewing pay rates and systems
Regularly reviewing the effectiveness and fairness of pay rates and systems can benefit your business.
Set up employment policies for your business
Guidance on which policies should be put in place to meet your legal requirements and your business needs.
Employment policies: what types should I use?
A list of the common types of employment policies that employers can set up.
Equality and diversity workplace policies
How promoting equality and diversity policies can benefit your business and create an open, communicative workplace.
Health and safety workplace policies
Legal obligations and best practices when writing health and safety policies.
Working time and time off policies
Polices covering leave and absence, working hours, and overtime.
Advantages of employment policies
Why it’s beneficial to have employment policies in place in your business.
Employing workers of compulsory school age
Understand the law concerning breaks, conditions and pay for workers of compulsory school age.
Application for flexible working
Information an employee must provide when making a flexible working request.
Types of flexible working
Different types of flexible working, such as part-time work, flexi-time, zero-hour contracts, and job sharing.
Menstruation, menstrual health and menopause in the workplace
How employers can provide support around menstruation, menstrual health, and menopause to women in the workplace.
Flexible working: extensions to time limits and withdrawals
Extending the time limit to decide on a flexible working request.
Menstruation and menstrual health support in the workplace
Practical steps employers can take to provide support around menstrual health-related symptoms and conditions in the workplace.
Flexible working refusal: employee's appeal
How an employee should request an appeal if their flexible working request is refused and how an employer must deal with that request.
Reaching a decision on a flexible working request
Accepting and refusing an employee's request and trial periods.
Refusing a flexible working request
Reasons employers may refuse a flexible working request and how this must be communicated to the employee.
Recognising and derecognising a trade union
What a trade union is, how it applies for recognition, and how it operates.
Flexible working: employee protection against dismissal and discrimination
An employee's protection against detrimental treatment and dismissal in relation to their flexible working request.