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Employment agencies
Guidance on running employment agency businesses including legal requirements and record-keeping.
Employment checks
Information for employers on pre-employment checks, criminal records checks, and ensuring your workers are eligible to work in the UK.
Advertise a job
Guidance on how Northern Ireland employers can advertise their job vacancies and approach interviews when recruiting staff.
Taking on staff
Best practice guidance to help you take the first steps to becoming an employer and how to manage the recruitment process.
Working time and rest breaks
Rules for employers on working hours, the working week, rest breaks, and other types of working such as Sunday working and night working.
Dismissals, resignations and retirements
Employer guidance on dismissing staff, issuing the correct periods of notice, and what to do when an employee resigns, retires, or dies.
Holiday, sickness and other leave
Guidance for Northern Ireland employers on holiday entitlement, allowing staff time off work and managing staff absence and sickness.
Statutory leave and pay entitlements
Guidance for Northern Ireland employers on pregnancy at work and maternity, paternity, adoption, shared and parental bereavement leave and pay.
Staff training and development
Best practice guidance to help Northern Ireland employers train their staff and develop employees' skills.
Employer support programmes
Training and support programmes available to Northern Ireland employers to help develop staff skills.
Managing workplace problems
Employer guidance on managing conflict, dealing with bullying, and handling grievances and disciplinary procedures.
National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage
Guidance for employers on their legal obligations to the minimum wage with details on the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage including a helpful calculator.
Redundancy, restructures and change
Employer legal obligations and best practice guidance for managing redundancies, restructures and business change.
Industrial action and trade unions
Legal and best practice guidance for Northern Ireland employers on how to work effectively with trade unions and deal with any industrial disputes.
Workplace pensions
Legal and best practice guidance for Northern Ireland employers on choosing and running a workplace pension scheme.
Staff performance
Practical guidance and tips to help Northern Ireland employers encourage and maintain high employee performance.
Engaging with staff
Guidance for employers on how to effectively communicate and engage with staff to get the best from your people.
Staff motivation
Best practice guidance for employers on how to motivate their staff, minimise staff turnover, and implement staff incentive schemes.
Staff pay
Guidance for Northern Ireland employers on staff pay including their legal obligations, pay rates and equal pay.
Unfair dismissal: employee eligibility
Employer consequences if you dismiss someone unfairly.