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 considers some of the main employment law rules for employees. We are not employment law experts but to be helpful we give you some basic information about the matters listed below and link to where you can get further help and guidance.

Ideally, you should make sure the tax status is correct in the first place. There is lots of information to help you, and you should always keep records of your decision-making process so that you can show HMRC evidence that you took as much care as possible. As we shall see later, this can help ...

Statutory sick pay (SSP) is a payment given by employers to employees who are off work sick. If you employ someone, you might need to think about statutory sick pay. This page tells you the basics of statutory sick pay and how to deal with it for tax and National Insurance contributions (NIC) ...

As an employer, you may have employees needing to take time off due to pregnancy (or their partner’s pregnancy) or because they are adopting a child. This page gives you an overview of the minimum payments that may be due to employees during periods of parental leave. You can, of course, decide to ...

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.