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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.

Checking an applicant's overseas criminal record and their right to work in the UK.

Find out the latest delivery times for AccessNI certificates.

How to complete your application, how to avoid making common mistakes, and how to dispute incorrect information.

Key points to think about when requesting AccessNI checks.

Registering your organisation with AccessNI in order to process criminal records checks.

The process you must follow to apply for an AccessNI check.

How much it costs to apply for an AccessNI check and how long you can expect to wait for it to be processed.

Accepting previously issued AccessNI checks, revealing information about these to other organisations, and security features of.