The status of your worker for employment law purposes is important. Their status determines the employment law rights that they have. It also determines your obligations to them.

This page explains more about payslips, such as what information they should include and how to create one for your employee.

This page explains how to make the various payments that become due - including the amounts you have deducted from your employee under Pay As You Earn (PAYE) - to HMRC.

If you are an online filer, there are two main submissions that you need to make to HMRC using your payroll software. Details of the submissions that paper filers need to make can be found on our separate page.

This page tells paper filers how to calculate and record the right deductions from their employee's pay. If you are an online filer, your payroll software will do the calculations for you.

We understand that auto-enrolment is one aspect of being an employer that can cause some worry, so here we go into some detail about it. For an overview of other obligations that you may have when taking someone on, go to our employment law page.