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Charging transfer fees to hiring companies
Employment agencies and businesses and using transfer fees fairly.
Employment businesses - protection of the work-seeker and the hirer
Steps the employment agency or employment business must take to ensure both parties are aware of what is required of them
Employment agencies providing additional services and goods
Rules and legal requirements for employment agencies that provide additional services or goods to jobseekers
Mentoring versus coaching
The differences between coaching and mentoring and how your business might benefit from one over the other
Clarifying mentoring roles
The importance of clearly defining all aspects of the mentoring relationship
Mentoring types
Different types of mentoring, including one-to-one, group and remote mentoring
Mentoring programmes: monitoring, evaluating and reviewing
How to monitor and assess your business mentoring programme
Mentoring: resolving problems
Planning for the situation where a mentoring relationship breaks down
Report a business cartel
How to notify the Competition and Markets Authority of cartel activity such as price fixing, bid-rigging, output restrictions or sharing markets
Leniency for cartel information
How you can avoid punishment for cartel involvement by collaborating with the Competition and Markets Authority
Private litigation in competition law cases
How to bring private actions against businesses for losses incurred by breaches of competition law
Retail - find a case study
Retail case studies to help you with your own retail business
Finding your route to market (video)
A video guide to various sales channels you can use to reach your customers
Skills to Succeed
Helping employers develop the skills of their workforce
Lead and motivate staff: five top tips
The following top tips will help you to enhance your leadership skills and motivate your staff
Identifying business opportunities through market research - Forest Feast (video)
Ann Woods, Forest Feast, explains what market research databases and techniques they use to help identify new business opportunities.
Blacklisting of trade union members
Description of the law that prohibits the blacklisting of trade unionists
Start a retail business
An overview of starting a retail business in Northern Ireland, looking at the challenges, the support available and the possible rewards
Types of retail business
The various types of retail business, including convenience store, speciality store, supermarket, discount store, department store, warehouse, direct retailer and online store
Retail start-up support
How to find the right financial and advisory support to start your retail business in Northern Ireland