Employers are required to give all of their employees and workers payslips by law. Workers can include people on zero-hours contracts and agency workers. Agency workers will get their payslips from their agency. Self-employed workers don’t get payslips, because they organise paying tax and other deductions themselves. This is unless they get employed by an agency for a job, in which case for the duration of the job they become a worker and the agency must give them payslips. A payslip must include the following: total pay before deductions (gross amount) total pay after deductions (net amount) amounts of any variable deductions, where the amounts depend on the amount of pay, for example tax, National Insurance, Student Loan repayments and pension schemes breakdown of how the wages will be paid if more than one payment method is used, for example bank transfer and cash amounts of any fixed deductions, for example union subscriptions As an employer you must adhere to the Equality Act 2010. This is designed to ensure that people get equal pay for equal work, regardless of their gender. It does so by providing for a sex equality clause to be inserted into every employee's contract of employment. Discrimination at work is illegal in England and Wales and if you don’t comply then you’re at risk of an employee taking you to an employment tribunal. To learn more about discrimination at work please take a look at our guide on protected characteristics.