Employment & skills - site map
Becoming an employer
- How to register as an employer
- Taking on a new employee
- Skills and training for directors and owners
- Set up employment policies for your business
- Keep the right staff records
- Learning through networking with others
- Employment agencies and employment businesses
- Running an employment agency or business
- Entertainment and modelling agencies
- Record keeping, compliance and enforcement

Recruiting people

Pay and pensions

Working hours and time off

Equality and diversity
- Bullying and harassment
- Recruiting and employing disabled people
- Support if you employ someone who is disabled
- Employing older workers
- Employing young people
- Assess your gender equality performance
- Prevent discrimination and value diversity

Maternity, paternity and adoption
- Pregnancy at work
- Managing expectant and new mothers at work
- Maternity leave and pay
- Ordinary paternity leave and pay
- Additional paternity leave entitlement
- Employee rights during additional paternity leave
- Adoption leave and pay
- Managing paternity and adoption leave and pay
- Parental leave and time off for dependants
- Make child maintenance deductions from an employee's pay

Health at work
- Improve employee health and well-being
- Sending staff on international business trips
- Monitoring and security of staff
- How to introduce a health and wellbeing programme for your business

Employee engagement
- Employee engagement - an overview
- Create and communicate your strategic narrative
- Become a more engaging manager
- Establish employee voice in your business
- Create and communicate business values with integrity

Trade unions
Managing change
- Setting up and developing a new team
- Inform and consult your employees
- Reorganisations, restructurings and other major changes
- Change an employee's terms of employment
- Responsibilities to employees if you buy or sell a business
- Working with non-union representatives
- Continuous employment and employee rights
- Control staff turnover
- Redundancy: the options

Develop your people

Find and fund training
- Advice and funding for training
- Finding tailored skills support from a National Skills Academy
- Getting started with Apprenticeships
- Recruiting apprentices

Deal with conflict
- Managing conflict
- Bullying and harassment
- Setting up and developing a new team
- Supporting front-line managers
- Work effectively with trade unions
- Working with non-union representatives
- Industrial disputes

Grievances and disciplinary issues

Tribunals
- Employment tribunal claims - the basics
- Employment tribunal claims - the process
- Employment tribunal claims - the outcomes

Leaving and retirement
- Workers leaving: the basics
- When an employee resigns
- When an employee leaves through ill health
- When an employee retires
- When an employee dies


