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Employment checks
Information for employers on pre-employment checks, criminal records checks, and ensuring your workers are eligible to work in the UK.
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.
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.
Buy business property
Guidance and tips on buying business property in Northern Ireland including how to search for commercial premises and finance your purchase.
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.
Security, fire and flood protection for business property
Best practice guidance for Northern Ireland businesses to minimise the risks from crime, fire, and flooding in commercial properties.
Tax breaks and finance for business property
Guidance on water charges, stamp duty, and tax reliefs for Northern Ireland commercial property.
Insurance for business property
Guidance for Northern Ireland businesses on commercial property insurance.
Rent business property
Guidance and tips on renting business property in Northern Ireland including commercial leases and landlord and tenant responsibilities.
Property efficiency
Guidance on how businesses can reduce energy consumption and save money by making commercial premises more efficient.
Business rates
Guidance for Northern Ireland businesses on non-domestic rates, how to pay them and available rate reliefs.
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.