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  • Advertising and marketing
  • Agency Workers Regulations 2010
  • Apprenticeship Levy
  • Apprenticeships
  • Brexit
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  • Children and young workers
  • CIS
  • CITB Levy
  • Conduct Regulations 2003
  • Consumer Legislation
  • Criminal Finances Act 2017
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D - F

  • Data Protection
  • Disciplinary and dismissals
  • Disclosure and Barring Service
  • Drivers
  • Employee Contracts, Terms & Written Statements of Particulars
  • Employment status
  • Equality Act 2010
  • Fair and Transparent Distribution of Tips
  • Fixed term employees
  • Flexible working

G - I

  • Gangmasters licensing
  • Gender pay gap reporting
  • Health and safety (employees)
  • Health and safety (temp workers)
  • Health checks
  • Holiday leave and pay for employees
  • Holiday leave and pay for temps
  • Insurance
  • Introducing permanent candidates
  • IR35 and the off-payroll rules

L - N

  • Licences and registration
  • Managing your own employees
  • Modern Slavery Act 2015
  • National minimum wage

P - R

  • Parental leave
  • Part time workers
  • PAYE and NICs
  • Payslips
  • Pensions
  • Provision of Services Regulations
  • Public Sector Procurement
  • Record keeping
  • Recovering unpaid fees
  • Redundancy
  • References
  • Restrictive Covenants
  • Right to work

S - V

  • Security clearance
  • Shared parental leave (ShPL)
  • Shared parental pay (ShPP)
  • Social media
  • Statutory adoption leave (SAL)
  • Statutory adoption pay (SAP)
  • Statutory maternity leave (SML)
  • Statutory maternity pay (SMP)
  • Statutory paternity leave (SPL)
  • Statutory paternity pay (SPP)
  • Statutory pay and compensation limits
  • Statutory sick pay (SSP)
  • Supplying limited company contractors
  • Supplying temp workers (not LCCs)
  • Tax
  • The Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Act 2023
  • Time off for employees
  • Transfer fees
  • Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE)
  • Travel expenses
  • Umbrella companies
  • Vaccines
  • VAT

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  • Working away from home
  • Working time and rest breaks
  • Zero hours contracts
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