Everything to set up before and after you take on your first employee, from PAYE and right to work to pensions and insurance.
Starting a business
First Employee Checklist
About this document
A step-by-step checklist for a business taking on its first employee. It covers the legal must-dos (right to work, PAYE registration, written statement, pension auto-enrolment, employers’ liability insurance), the true cost of employing someone, and the Employment Rights Act 2025 changes now coming into force.
The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.
Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.
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