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The following top tips highlight key issues you should be aware of if you are considering home working as a possibility for your business.

How employers can get the most of staff using a mix of working at home or remotely and also in the workplace.

Ensuring staff understand their duties to keep homeworking legal and safe.

Using IT to facilitate homeworking - phones, broadband, extranets, virtual private networks, and security issues.

Key health and safety duties towards home workers - from risk assessments to ensuring equipment is suitable.

What you can do to make home working a success - performance monitoring, training, communication, and feedback.

Your responsibilities for the equipment and furniture that home workers use to carry out their work.

How the written statement of terms and conditions may need to be amended when implementing homeworking.

Types of jobs that are well-matched for home working and the skills employees will need.

Key advantages and disadvantages of home working - from productivity boosts to problems monitoring performance.

The key issues to consider if you decide that working from home is a possibility for your business.

How to create an open and inclusive workplace where staff feel safe to raise their fertility challenges and seek support.

Understand your legal obligations and the best practice approaches to effectively support employees experiencing fertility challenges.

Work with schools and help young people, graduates, and long-term unemployed people find work.

How employers can provide practical and compassionate support to staff following a miscarriage or stillbirth.

The supporting payment schedule for a DEA that must be completed and issued in order to ensure that the correct payment is allocated to the correct debtor account.

The Department for Communities will write to you if you need to make DEA deductions for an employee.

Exemptions to the rules about working hours, rest breaks, and rest periods for workers who choose their hours.

The breaks workers are entitled to take during working hours and between working days, depending on their employment status.

Understand the limit of working hours in an average week.

The rules about working hours and how employers can best manage them.

Understand the law concerning breaks, conditions and pay for workers of compulsory school age.

Overview of the law relating to young workers at different stages of their lives.

What an employer can do when an employee appeals against the decision of the first grievance hearing.

How to run a grievance hearing, informing the employee of its outcome and dealing with delays.