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Research and development
Understand the importance of research and development for the success of new products, services and ideas
Developing products and services
Key considerations for businesses that are developing new products and services
Use innovation in your business
Guidance on using innovation in manufacturing and business operations, and the benefits of using artificial intelligence, Industry 4.0 technologies and open data in business
Design for business success
Discover how design can benefit your business, your products, services and branding
Patents, trade marks, copyright and design
How to protect and register different types of intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, design and copyright
Innovation and R&D
Guidance on intellectual property, innovation and research and development, and financing business R&D in Northern Ireland
Intellectual property for business
Find out how to protect your ideas, inventions and intellectual property in domestic and overseas markets
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.
Statutory leave and pay entitlements
Guidance for Northern Ireland employers on pregnancy at work and maternity, paternity, adoption, shared and parental bereavement leave and pay.
Staff training and development
Best practice guidance to help Northern Ireland employers train their staff and develop employees' skills.