Understand Employment Responsibilities and Rights in Health, Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s Settings.

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Question Booklet Task A – Short Answer Questions Ai Imagine you are a newly appointed supervisor/manager within your service. You need to update your staff handbook to reflect current employment law. Identify three different sources of information you could use to enable you to do this. 1. Human Resources Team 2. Web search for ‘current employment law’,(example results: www.peoplemanagement.co.uk, www.direct.gov.uk, www.businesslink.gov.uk (This is the governments online resource for businesses ) ) 3. ACAS - (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) This is an organisation that gives free advice to employers or employees. They can help with employment relations, give independent advice, training etc. Once you have identified a reliable source of information: Aii a) List three aspects of employment covered by law. 1. Minimum Wage 2. Discrimination 3. Health & Safety b) List three main features of current employment legislation. 1. Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC) - is a European Union Directive, which creates the right for EU workers to a minimum number of holidays each year, paid breaks, and rest of at least 11 hours in any 24 hours; restricts excessive night work; and makes a default right to work no more than 48 hours per week. (Source of information - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive) 2. The Equality Act 2010 - is the law which bans unfair treatment and helps achieve equal opportunities in the workplace and in wider society.(Source of information - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/equalities/equality-act) 3. The Data Protection Act 1998 - is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which defines UK law on the processing of data on identifiable living people. It is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in
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