tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/search/services Services 2025-01-09T16:35:39+00:00 HM Government tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/employing-staff 2025-01-09T16:35:39+00:00 Employing staff for the first time The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/business-support-service 2024-12-19T09:36:01+00:00 Get help and support for your business Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business. tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/employee-immigration-employment-status 2024-12-11T10:00:02+00:00 Use the Employer Checking Service Employer checking service (ECS): check your employee or potential employee's immigration employment status tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/dbs-update-service 2024-12-02T00:01:09+00:00 DBS Update Service Use the DBS Update Service to keep your DBS check certificates up to date or check an applicant's DBS certificate (used to be called CRB checks). tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/dbs-check-applicant-criminal-record 2024-12-02T00:01:09+00:00 Check someone's criminal record as an employer How to request a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for a potential employee: types of DBS check, how to request a check, how much it costs, how long it takes. tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/tell-employer-or-college-about-criminal-record 2024-11-08T15:20:45+00:00 Check if you need to tell someone about your criminal record When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check. tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/national-minimum-wage-accommodation 2024-10-30T11:07:00+00:00 National Minimum Wage and Living Wage: accommodation Accommodation provided by an employer can affect the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage: offset rates, accommodation charges. tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/check-job-applicant-right-to-work 2024-10-16T15:31:20+01:00 Checking a job applicant's right to work Make sure a job applicant can work in the UK - check they have the right documents and make sure you're not prosecuted for employing an illegal worker. tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/employing-an-apprentice 2024-10-14T08:00:04+01:00 Employing an apprentice How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get. tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/apply-sponsor-licence 2020-09-29T12:21:45+01:00 Apply for a sponsor licence Apply for a sponsor licence so you can sponsor foreign workers or students to come and work or study in the UK tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/report-unfit-work-children-vulnerable-adults 2020-06-18T20:45:49+01:00 Report someone as unfit to work with children or vulnerable adults Reporting a person who cannot work with children or vulnerable adults tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/employers-checks-job-applicants 2017-09-04T14:51:29+01:00 Checks employers can make on job applicants Checks employers might need to run on job applicants, including right to work in the UK, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS - formerly CRB) checks and health checks tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/legal-right-work-uk 2017-02-03T13:43:49+00:00 Check if a document allows someone to work in the UK Find out if a potential employee's document gives them the right to work in the UK and which documents employers should check. tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/find-out-dbs-check 2016-09-13T12:44:31+01:00 Find out which DBS check is right for your employee Find out what level of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check you can get for an employee you’re recruiting. Formerly a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check. tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/employers-responsibilities-equality-monitoring 2015-11-02T16:57:37+00:00 Employers' responsibilities: equality monitoring Employers' responsibilities for diversity monitoring: gender, ethnicity, sexuality and disability balance in the workplace - including data protection tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/penalties-for-employing-illegal-workers 2015-10-15T09:49:22+01:00 Penalties for employing illegal workers You can receive an unlimited fine for employing an illegal worker - find out what happens and what you can do tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/employers-liability-insurance 2015-09-18T11:26:22+01:00 Employers' liability insurance Your insurance must cover you for at least £5 million - check authorised insurers and how you can be fined tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/employer-preventing-discrimination 2015-08-21T18:14:06+01:00 Employers: preventing discrimination Discrimination policy and equal opportunities in recruitment and in the workplace - age discrimination, disabled workers, gender reassignment, sex discrimination tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/sponsor-management-system 2015-08-06T14:02:48+01:00 UK visa sponsorship management system Use the sponsor management system - employers sponsoring Worker and Temporary Worker visa holders tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/recruitment-disabled-people 2015-07-15T16:48:41+01:00 Recruitment and disabled people Avoiding discrimination against disabled people in recruitment � advertising the job, encouraging applications, reasonable adjustments