Fact sheets

Find answers to the most popular questions we are asked about payroll processing and the regulations behind it. Area covered include holidays, redundancy, sick pay, maternity pay, tax, NI and so on.

All free and downloadable in MS Word .doc format. A total of 89 general use forms, letters, contracts and policies. No registration or logging in required.

By law every employee must have a contract of employment within two months of starting. Find out what a contract should and should not include and the different parts that together form a good contract.

Don't fall into the trap of making an illegal deduction from an employees wages; find out what is legal. This section covers things like PAYE tax, NI, pensions and also has all the current and past tax and NI thresholds, bands and rates.

All things to do with employing people with sections covering, among many others, children and young people, discrimination, disciplinary matters, part time & short term workers as well as illegal workers etc.

Holidays are the thing we get asked about the most. This section covers holiday entitlement, holiday pay, bank holidays and a holiday pay calculator.

All about making a payment to an employee, what they are entitled to, how the payment should be made, benefits, company car and calculators for pay rate convert ion and working out absence deductions.

There are a whole raft of payments that an employee is entitled to that could be viewed as state benefits that the employer has to pay mainly out of their own pocket. Make sure that you pay your employees the correct sick, maternity, paternity, adoption and redundancy pay and that you claim back from HMRC what you can.

Terminating an employee must be done correctly or you run the risk of being taken to court. This section covers the differences between unfair and wrongful dismissal, laying off, the correct notice periods and issuing a job reference.