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Types of retail crime
The types of crime that retail businesses may face include shoplifting, money fraud, checkout fraud and burglary.
Apply to claim a repayment or remission of import duty on ‘at risk’ goods brought into Northern Ireland
Check if you can apply for a repayment or remission of EU import duty paid on goods brought into Northern Ireland, through the Duty Reimbursement Scheme.
Export or move composite food products
Find out what a composite food product is, and the rules you need to follow to export or move these products.
Country guides: Exporting to the EU
Find out about individual EU markets and the opportunities for doing export business there.
Set up a staff records system
How and where to store information on your workers and who should have access to the data.
Staff records
Legal obligations for employers when gathering, keeping and using information on workers.
The staff records you must and should keep
What staff records you must keep to comply with the Data Protection Act.
Advantages of keeping staff records
How keeping staff records can benefit your business.
Business learning hub - search for online training
Find courses to help your staff develop their skills across a wide range of areas.
Visual merchandising for your retail business
How to use visual merchandising to promote your retail business and products, attract customers and drive sales.
Visual merchandising: point-of-sale displays and price promotions
Customers can be encouraged to make impulse purchases by using point-of-sale displays and price promotions.
Visual merchandising: advantages of retail window displays
Effectively using window displays can have many benefits for your business.
How to improve and measure the impact of visual merchandising
Monitoring your visual merchandising can help you to decide whether to continue or change what you’re doing.
Staff records: your data protection obligations
How to comply with the Data Protection Act and staff data processing policies.
How long must staff records be kept?
Statutory and best-practice retention periods for staff records.
A worker's right to access their records
Subject access requests for workers to access data held on them.
Using inland border facilities
Find out how and when to use Inland Border Facilities
Allowing time off work
When staff have a statutory right to time off, when it must be paid, and how to deal with discretionary requests.
Time off work for training and certain job-related duties and activities
Time off for training for those to be made redundant, union and safety representatives, and pension scheme trustees.
Who has the right to time off work and when is it paid?
Time off for trade union work, TUPE consultation, pension scheme, and public duties is a paid, statutory requirement.