If you’re a sole trader and you’re looking to employ your first member of staff, what would you need to do?
You’d need an employment contract, some basic policies to cover both yourself and for the employee. This would include covering areas such as holidays, absence management, bullying and harassment, whistleblowing and perhaps family leave.
I would say these are your basic policies that you would need to have during the interview process. It is always important to check the right of work in the UK because there are quite substantial fines now that employer is liable for if your employee doesn’t have the right to work in the UK.
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