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Lead and motivate staff: five top tips
The following top tips will help you to enhance your leadership skills and motivate your staff
Starting a successful business - The Present Tree (video)
In this case study, Catherine Cunningham, founder of The Present Tree discusses how she started a successful business
Blocks of shared parental leave
An employee taking shared parental leave (SPL) can split their leave into up to three separate blocks instead of taking it all in one go
Keep shared parental leave and pay records
You must keep shared parental leave and pay records for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
Starting a business as an entrepreneur with a disability - Little Grooming pet studio (video)
Claire Hamilton discusses the challenges and rewards of starting a business as an entrepreneur with a disability
Running a business as an entrepreneur with a disability - Omagh Music Academy (video)
Claire Bowes discusses some of the support and advice available for disabled entrepreneurs to start and run a business
Starting a social enterprise - SlackPress (video)
How SlackPress developed into a self-sufficient social enterprise that engages with the local community
Shared parental leave and pay
Employers' duties in relation to shared parental leave and pay and how to best manage these new rights for your employees
The right to shared parental leave and pay
Employees may be entitled to shared parental leave (SPL) and statutory shared parental pay (ShPP)
How shared parental leave and pay can be taken
How an employee can take the shared parental leave and pay
Employee notification of shared parental leave and pay
The employee must give you written notice of their entitlement to shared parental leave and statutory shared parental pay
When shared parental leave can begin
Detailing the steps to allow shared parental leave to begin
Contact and work during parental leave
Your employee can work up to 20 days during SPL without bringing it to an end
Safer ways of working
Reducing the health and safety risks of specific work activities
Take steps to grow your business
Guides to help your startup business move beyond the starting up phase and grow into a successful established business
Choose your business structure
Guides on the different types of structure which can be used to start a business and the legal implications of each
Local support for start-ups
Guidance on specific forms of support in Northern Ireland for different business types of startup business and entrepreneurs
Resource efficiency and managing waste in food businesses
Guidance on resource, waste and water efficiency in food and drink businesses, and dealing with fat, oil and grease correctly
Selling food and drink
Guidance on the sale of goods by weight or other measures such as volume or length, and selling your food or drink product in supermarkets
Health and safety
Guidance on health and safety basics, writing a health and safety policy, providing health and safety training, setting up a health and safety management system, managing the welfare of people and safer ways of working