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Find a solicitor for your business
How to find a solicitor that's right for the size of your business and the industry sector which you operate in.
Legal advice for businesses
Legal advice can be useful when dealing with business premises, debt control and other key business areas.
Contract types and employer responsibilities
Guidance to help Northern Ireland employers understand the various contract types and their responsibilities when recruiting staff.
Staff documents and employment policies
Key documents that Northern Ireland employers need to legally provide to their workers and workplace policies to help effectively manage staff.
Choose the right solicitor for your business needs
What to look for in prospective solicitors for your business and how specialist solicitors may be right for some issues.
Communicating with your solicitor
How to manage the business relationship with your solicitor and how to spot potential problems with the relationship.
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.
Ten questions to ask before hiring a solicitor
Some useful questions you should ask solicitors before deciding to hire a solicitor for your business.
How to make a complaint about a solicitor
Key steps to take if you are unhappy with the service provided by your solicitor and where to go to complain.
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.
Diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace
Equality guidance for Northern Ireland employers on preventing discrimination, valuing diversity, and building an inclusive workplace.
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.