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Data protection and legal issues
Key guidance for Northern Ireland businesses on data protection, using personal data in business and personal data transfers
Create and manage a website
Guidance to help you build, host, optimise and advertise your business website and content
E-commerce
Guidance on selling online through online shops and e-marketplaces, accepting and fulfilling online orders, and complying with e-commerce laws
Introduction to IT
How to find the right software and hardware for your business, plan for or upgrade your business' IT systems and skills, and maximise the benefits of email, intranets and extranets
Software and business applications
Information on using databases in business, open source, cloud technologies and specific types of software that can help you streamline your accounting, payroll and customer management
Communications
Information on different phone systems for business, business broadband, and wireless and mobile technologies
IT security and risks
Best practices on IT risk management, cyber security and protecting your business' wireless network
Choosing suppliers
Information on choosing and managing an IT and an internet service provider supplier for your business
IT
Browse our key technology guidance and get impartial advice on using the latest IT systems and technologies to power your business
Contract types and employer responsibilities
Guidance to help Northern Ireland employers understand the various contract types and their responsibilities when recruiting staff.
Staff documents and employment policies
Key documents that Northern Ireland employers need to legally provide to their workers and workplace policies to help effectively manage staff.
Employment agencies
Guidance on running employment agency businesses including legal requirements and record-keeping.
Employment checks
Information for employers on pre-employment checks, criminal records checks, and ensuring your workers are eligible to work in the UK.
Advertise a job
Guidance on how Northern Ireland employers can advertise their job vacancies and approach interviews when recruiting staff.
Taking on staff
Best practice guidance to help you take the first steps to becoming an employer and how to manage the recruitment process.
Working time and rest breaks
Rules for employers on working hours, the working week, rest breaks, and other types of working such as Sunday working and night working.
Staff health and wellbeing
Best practice guidance for employers to maximise the health and wellbeing of their workers.
Diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace
Equality guidance for Northern Ireland employers on preventing discrimination, valuing diversity, and building an inclusive workplace.
Dismissals, resignations and retirements
Employer guidance on dismissing staff, issuing the correct periods of notice, and what to do when an employee resigns, retires, or dies.
Holiday, sickness and other leave
Guidance for Northern Ireland employers on holiday entitlement, allowing staff time off work and managing staff absence and sickness.