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Skills to Succeed
Helping employers develop the skills of their workforce
Lead and motivate staff: five top tips
The following top tips will help you to enhance your leadership skills and motivate your staff
Identifying business opportunities through market research - Forest Feast (video)
Ann Woods, Forest Feast, explains what market research databases and techniques they use to help identify new business opportunities.
Start a retail business
An overview of starting a retail business in Northern Ireland, looking at the challenges, the support available and the possible rewards
Types of retail business
The various types of retail business, including convenience store, speciality store, supermarket, discount store, department store, warehouse, direct retailer and online store
Retail start-up support
How to find the right financial and advisory support to start your retail business in Northern Ireland
Ten top tips for starting a retail business
Ten top tips to starting a retail business successfully and staying afloat in the early days of trading
Where to set up your retail business
Find the right place to set up your retail business in Northern Ireland by weighing the important options
Rules for selling fireworks legally
Once you are registered as a firework retailer in Northern Ireland, there are rules you must follow including age restrictions and packaging.
Fireworks categories and your business
Fireworks categories F1, F2, F3 and F4, what they mean and your responsibilities as a fireworks retailer for safe storage and sale of fireworks in each category.
Storing fireworks safely at your premises
How to store fireworks safely at your business premises and your responsibilities as a retailer under manufacture and storage of explosives legislation.
Creating a successful e-commerce website - Old Mill Saddlery (video)
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)
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