# Employee-related registration requirements
What has to be registered where and how if, for example, the employment status of one of my employees changes? A number of legal requirements must be followed, particularly regarding social security for your employees. You can find the relevant information and services here.
To ServicesIf you want to hire out employees to a third party, you generally need a permit to do so.
If you intend to lay off a large number of employees in your company, you must notify the Employment Agency in good time.
If the equalisation association of which you are a member dissolves or you leave the equalisation association, you will have to take care of your obligations towards the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK) yourself again.
If you have given up or discontinued your business or, under certain conditions, are only commissioning artistic or journalistic services to a minor extent, you must inform the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK).
If you are unable to pay the current claim of the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK) on time, you can apply to the KSK for payment relief.
If you run a company that is liable to pay social security contributions, you can reduce the time and effort required to prepare the annual reports by forming a compensation association with other companies. This association assumes the obligations towards the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK).
You have not yet fulfilled your obligation to self-report and the Künstlersozialkasse has written to you to check your obligation to pay contributions.