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Paying trade union subscriptions
How you can help your workers make payments to their union via your payroll system.
Employment agencies and employment businesses
Rules that apply when setting up employment agencies and businesses.
Employment agencies and employment businesses: record keeping
How long records must be kept by employment agencies and employment businesses and the role of the Employment Agency Inspectorate.
Employment agencies and employment businesses: keeping work-seekers' records
Guidance on the types of records employment agencies and employment businesses need to keep in relation to work-seekers.
Employment agencies and businesses: keeping hiring company records
Records that must be kept by employment agencies or employment businesses in contact with companies hiring new staff.
Employment Agency Inspectorate: compliance and enforcement
The role of the Employment Agency Inspectorate in ensuring employment agencies and businesses comply with the law.
Employment agencies: penalties for non-compliance
Action that can be taken by the Employment Agency Inspectorate when an employment agency does not comply with its legal duties.
How long to store employment agency and business records
The length of time employment agency and employment business records must be kept for.
Employment Agency Inspectorate: prosecutions
Steps taken when employment businesses or agencies are prosecuted by the Employment Agency Inspectorate.
Keeping records for multiple employment agencies
The records that must be kept when dealing with more than one employment agency or employment business.
Legal issues following industrial action
Re-engaging employees after a strike.
Conducting industrial action ballots
How a union must conduct a ballot before it can call for official industrial action.
Dealing with industrial disputes
Ways to resolve disputes with groups of workers through mediation, conciliation, and arbitration.
Lawful industrial action
The need to meet certain conditions before a union or individual can lawfully call for industrial action.
Statutory conditions for immunity when organising industrial action
The statutory conditions for immunity when organising industrial action.
General principles to running an employment agency or an employment business
Principles on running an employment agency or employment business in regards to people seeking work.
Employment agencies and employment businesses: the basics
Definitions of what an employment agency and employment business are and organisations that are exempt under the legislation.
Setting up an employment agency or employment business
Information on rules for setting up an employment agency or employment business.
Criminal records checks for agency workers
Information for employment agencies and businesses on making criminal records checks on agency workers.
Payment into trade union political funds
How you can help your workers make payments to their trade union’s political funds.