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Overpayment of sick pay and how to deal with dismissals for long-term sickness absence.

What occupational sick pay schemes must offer.

Employer forms for statutory sick pay including self-certification forms and keeping records of sickness absence.

Work out how much statutory sick pay to pay employees who qualify for it.

How to define when you start and stop payment of statutory sick pay.

How eligibility for SSP depends on an employee's average weekly earnings during a specified period.

Employers' responsibilities to pay statutory sick pay to eligible employees, and where to get further information.

The basic rules governing statutory sick pay and what employers need to do when paying it.

Download individual sections of the Invest Northern Ireland Employers' Handbook.

The Employers' Handbook from Invest Northern Ireland outlines legal essentials and best practice guidelines for effective HR management.

Sample letters and application forms to help you manage your workers' rights to maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave.

Discover the business advantages of recruiting apprentices.

Foundation degrees can help to improve your employees' skills and their contribution to your business.

A Foundation degree is a higher education qualification mainly delivered in local colleges which combines academic and work-related learning.

Helping Northern Ireland employers provide higher education qualifications to improve their employees' skills.

Essential Skills is a training programme that assists employees aged 16 and over in the development of literacy, numeracy, and ICT skills up to level 2.

Sometimes only one parent in a couple will be eligible for shared parental leave (SPL) and statutory shared parental pay (ShPP).

Who qualifies for Statutory Adoption Pay, and how employers may recover payments and offer enhanced adoption pay.

Who qualifies for SPP, how to recover SPP payments, and offering SPP enhancements.

Eligibility for statutory maternity pay (SMP), how to recover SMP payments, and the option of enhancements to SMP.

Best practice guidance for employers recruiting people with NI conflict-related convictions that took place before the Belfast Agreement/Good Friday Agreement 1998.

For positions that involve working in regulated activity with children or adults, enhanced checks are required.

What information may be disclosed by an AccessNI check, recruiting ex-offenders, and withdrawing job offers.