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Equal pay law overview
How domestic equal pay law protects the rights of employees to receive equal pay for equal work.
What is equal work?
How the terms 'like work', 'work rated as equivalent', 'work of equal value', and 'pay' are defined.
Types of payment cards available
An overview of payment card types - including credit, debit, charge, pre-paid, travel and purchasing cards.
Maternity, paternity, adoption, parental and shared parental leave letters and forms
Sample letters and application forms to help you manage your workers' rights to maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave.
Grievance and disciplinary procedures and templates
Free templates to help employers and HR professionals handle any grievance, discipline, or dismissal situation fairly and in keeping with the law.
Job offers, inductions and new starts templates
Use our sample job offer letters, induction plans, and contract of employment to welcome and start a new member of your staff.
Performance management and staff training templates
Sample letters and application forms to help you train and develop your staff, and monitor their performance.
Redundancy letters, forms and templates
Forms and templates to help employers manage the redundancy process including redundancy letter templates.
Time off work policies and procedures
Download a sample working time opt-out agreement and steps to help you determine your workers' leave entitlement.
Other key HR policies and templates
Sample documents to help you develop employment policies that follow good practices and comply with legislation.
Recruitment forms and templates
Sample recruitment templates including forms, letters, and documents to help you recruit, shortlist and interview potential employees.
Managing absence templates
Sample documents to help you manage staff absence with employment policies that follow good practice and comply with legislation.
Equal pay - the law and best practice
Understand your legal responsibilities under the equal pay legislation and follow best practice advice.
Mind Body Business initiative for Ards and North Down
Grant scheme for workplace health and wellbeing initiatives for employees now open for applications.
Packaging reform draft regulations consultation
Consultation on the draft Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024.
Grey to Green Demonstrator Project for Belfast
Expressions of interest are encouraged from organisations with the expertise and capability to undertake this kind of project.
How to get an explosives licence or registration
Different types of explosives manufacturing and storage licences and registration and where to obtain them
Registering as a fireworks retailer
How to register with the Department of Justice as a firework retailer in Northern Ireland and why it is important to ensure you have an up-to-date licence.
Access to Finance: Growth Loan Fund II
Apply now for loans between £100,000 and £500,000
Working with Northern Ireland Trading Standards Service
How Trading Standards can help your business comply with the law when a customer has lodged a complaint about your business or you need general advice.