Welcome to Business-inform

Advice on managing homeworking safely.

Includes sickness absence, sick pay, time off for dependants, flexible working and homeworking, annual leave, discipline and grievance, contracts of employment, maternity rights, termination of employment, discrimination and recruitment.

Employers’ duties regarding employment contracts and written statements of particulars.

Issues associated with different types of termination, including dismissal procedures, notice periods, conduct and performance issues, retirement and redundancy.

Includes emergency management, environmental health, working from home, workplace environment, fire safety, stress and wellbeing in the workplace.

Including PAYE and income tax, Real Time Information, National Insurance, benefits, deductions from pay, attachment of earnings and Statutory Sick Pay.

Including sickness absence, maternity leave, holiday pay, fit notes, jury service, family leave and compassionate leave.

Including person specifications, job descriptions, interviewing, offers, record keeping, induction, disclosures, qualifications and the right to work in the UK.

Duties under Equality Act 2010, grounds on which discrimination is unlawful, various forms that discrimination can take and how to recognise and prevent it.

Duties under the GDPR and information on handling and processing personal data, employees’ rights of access, dealing with data loss and penalties for breaching GDPR.

Includes capital gains and corporation tax, VAT, accounting, PAYE, contracts, insurance, and asset and credit management.

Includes commercial leases, business rating, managing relocation, and rights over land

Includes e-commerce, email and internet, cyber security and protecting digital assets.

Includes buying a business, marketing and sources of finance.

Includes copyright and designs, intellectual property, trademarks and marketing.

Includes energy saving measures, waste, WEEE, and recycling, reuse and recovery.