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 ...

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.

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.

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