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.

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.

Most workers are legally entitled to paid holidays/annual leave. On this page, we look at the rules in more detail and explain how to calculate and pay holiday pay. It should be noted that holiday pay is a complex and ever-changing area of law.

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) ...