If you wish to rent a private residential property to a tenant, you are now legally obliged to check whether or not your prospective tenant has the Right to Rent.

You must check anyone aged 18 or over who pays to use your property as their main home, eg. tenants, sub-tenants and paying house guests.

If you’ve bought a property that already has tenants, you need proof that their last landlord did the check. You’ll still be responsible for carrying out further checks on your tenants in future.

There are certain exemptions, which you can find in the Home Office’s Code of practice on illegal immigrants and private rented accommodation.

You can find more information on being a landlord and renting out a room on the Gov.uk website.

If you are advertising on w4mpjobs then you should be aware that from April 2016, most UK workers aged 25 and over are legally entitled to at least £7.20 per hour

Take these four steps to be ready for the change:

1. Check you know who is eligible in your organisation. Find out on GOV. UK’s employment status page.
2. Take the appropriate payroll action. Find useful guidance in HMRC’s tutorials.
3. Let your staff know about their new pay rate.
4. Check your staff under 25 are earning at least the right rate of National Minimum Wage.

You can find out everything you need to know about the new National Living Wage, including the new rates of pay, on the employers’ National Minimum Wage page.

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