Workplace and Environment

Process - safe system of work - machinery maintenanceTo ensure that your staff follow prescribed safe systems of work, you should use a formal process. This document sets out how machinery maintenance should be completed; for example, how the risks a... Read more

Auto-enrolment postponement letterYou can postpone auto-enrolling employees in your workplace pension for up three months. This might mean that you never have to include temporary workers. Postponement can also be used in other situations, such as fo... Read more

Letter for entitled workersIf you have any new entitled workers, you must write to them letting them know they have a right to join a pension scheme, but be aware this can be a different scheme to your qualifying workplace pension scheme.Entitled wor... Read more

Letter for workers already in a qualifying pension schemeWhere you already have a qualifying workplace pension scheme in place for your workers and they are active members of that scheme, other than writing to them using our letter, there is no actio... Read more

Eligible jobholders' automatic enrolment letterThe Pensions Acts 2008 and 2011 require every employer to automatically enrol their workers into a qualifying workplace pension scheme, if they are not already in one, and to mandatorily contribute to tha... Read more

Letter for non-eligible jobholdersSome of your workers may be non-eligible jobholders either because of their age or their low level of earnings. They don't have to be automatically enrolled into a qualifying workplace pension scheme but they do have ... Read more

Redundancy payments ready reckonerStatutory redundancy pay is the minimum payment that must be made to an employee who is to be made redundant. It is calculated according to age, length of service and their gross weekly pay.Redundancy paymentsIf the ... Read more

Health and safety record keepingMany pieces of health and safety legislation include a requirement to retain records, such as risk assessments, accident reports, etc. Use our new guide to check that you're on track.Hidden requirementsTo ensure that yo... Read more

Paternity leave policyPaternity leave essentially enables eligible employees (usually fathers) to take up to two weeks off work following the birth or adoption of their child. Our policy statement sets out the employee's statutory rights to paternity ... Read more

Paternity leave request formPaternity leave (previously called ordinary paternity leave) entitles eligible employees to take either one or two weeks' paid time off work following the birth of their child (or following the placement of a child for adop... Read more