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Recruiting freelancers and outside contractors
Consider whether your business would benefit from the use of freelancers and outside contractors.
Overtime and holiday pay
How employers should treat overtime, commission, and bonus payments for holiday pay.
Skill Up programme: Retrain and upskill your staff
Find free training opportunities to help develop the skills of your staff through the fully funded Skill Up programme.
Equal pay for work of equal value
The Equal Pay Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 (as amended) provides for equal pay between women and men in the same employment.
Further education: skills development programmes
List of further education skills development programmes in Northern Ireland.
Considering requests to change working hours
Points to think about when workers ask to work part-time or any other flexible working pattern.
Running a pension scheme
How to open or close a registered pension scheme, employer contributions, and trustee responsibilities.
Responsibilities of trustees of occupational pension schemes
The role of trustees in the day-to-day running of final-salary pension schemes.
Employer-sponsored pension schemes
Providing access to an employer-sponsored pension scheme and the types of schemes available.
Responsibilities of employers for workplace pensions
Responsibilities of employers for workplace pensions when making deductions and payments and for informing and consulting members.
Personal and stakeholder pension schemes
Running personal and stakeholder pension schemes.
Regulation of workplace pension schemes
The role, responsibilities, and powers of the Pensions Regulator and the Financial Conduct Authority for workplace pensions.
Tax advantages of pension schemes
Understand the tax benefits of contributing to a pension scheme for employers and employees.
Rights of redundant employees
The employee's right to statutory redundancy payments, other redundancy-related rights, and how employers can calculate payments.
Promoting stakeholder and group personal pensions to employees
Ways employers can promote their schemes without infringing financial regulations.
Best practice checklist for workplace pensions
A checklist of good practice principles when choosing and running a workplace pension scheme.
Buying or selling a business with a pension scheme
Your responsibilities when buying or selling a business with a pension scheme.
Residential Homes Rate Relief
Residential Homes Rate Relief is an application-based rate relief that provides 100% relief to properties that meet the criteria.
Hardship Rate Relief
Hardship Rate Relief assists businesses that are having difficulty paying business rates due to a temporary crisis, financial or otherwise.
Alcohol sales and young people
Guidance on the legal requirements for selling alcohol and on preventing the sale to minors under 18.