Understanding Employment Rights and Responsibilities and Rights in Health, Social Care or Children and Young Peoples Settings Unit 01. * List 4 aspects of employment covered by law. * Health and Safety * Holiday Entitlements * Discrimination * Training * List 3 main features of current employment legislation. * Employment Rights Act 1996: This Act came into force on the 22nd August 1996. It sets out the statutory employment rights of workers and employees.
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.
It was said that the marriage didn’t guarantee “the fundamental right to marry a person of the same sex.” Also it was said that the marriage exclusion does not offend the liberty, freedom, equality, or due process provisions of the Massachusetts Constitution. From my knowledge, I know that you can only get married to the same sex in San Francisco, California and in Canada. In the Loving v. Virginia case, the Fourteenth Amendment was on their side by stating that marriage shouldn’t be restricted by invidious racial discrimination. Under the Constitution, the freedom to marry or not marry a person of another race resides with the individual and
In other words, an individual cannot be held to different standards when being considered for a hiring, promotion, training, transfer, compensation. In this case, a man should have the same opportunity as a women to work as a secretary in a cosmetic company such as Lois Lance Co. regardless of sex, physical image and looks. We believe that there is a prima facie case of discrimination that shows Ben Smith was treated differently. The appropriate test in this case used to
Task A-Short Answer questions Ai: The existing handbook, the latest Health & Safety requirements and changes in the law since the last update. Aii: a) Holidays and time off, my right at work and my working hours and contract. b) Training, minimum wages and Health & Safety policy. Aiii: * Fair wages * The workplace safety & standards * Employee benefits * Retirement & pensions The employment law deal with both the employer and employee’s actions, rights and responsibilities, as well as their relationship with one another. Task B Your work role Bi: Employment duration, place of work, hours of work, remuneration, holiday entitlement, public/bank holiday, sickness pay & conditions, disciplinary rules & procedures, disciplinary appeals procedures, grievance procedure, notice of termination to be given by employer, notice of termination to be given by employee, pension & pension scheme and collective agreements.
These are run by the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP), which is a part of the United States Department of Labor (Valerius, Bayes, Newby, & Seggern, 2008). The four federal programs are (1) The Federal Employees’ Compensation Program, (2) The Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Program, (3) The Federal Black Lung Program, and (4) The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program. Under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA), federal employees are covered under the first program. Employees of the maritime field are covered under program number 2 via the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. In addition, extensions of this act made other work classes become covered under this program.
Understand Employment Responsibilities and Rights in Health, Social Care or Children and Yong People’s Settings 1. Know the statutory responsibilities and rights of employees and employers within own area of work. 2.1 Every aspect of employment is covered by law. Even at the beginning of any employment it is a law that the employer gives the employee a contract. There are also conditions of work, these include Minimum wage, Hours worked, Discrimination, Health and safety, Holiday entitlements, redundancy and dismissal, training, disciplinary procedures, union rights and consultation.
Understanding Employment Responsibilities and Rights in Health and Social Care Learning Outcome 1 – Know the Statutory responsibilities and rights of employees and employers within own area of work 1.1 List the Aspects of Employment Law: • Minimum Wage • Hours Worked • Discrimination • Health & Safety • Holiday Entitlements • Redundancy and Dismissal • Training • Disciplinary Procedures • Union rights and consultation 1.2 List the Main Features of Current Employment Legislation The Equality Act 2010 A new Equality Act came into force on 1 October 2010. The Equality Act brings together over 116 separate pieces of legislation into one single Act. Combined, they make up a new Act that provides a legal framework to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all. The Act simplifies, strengthens and harmonises the current legislation to provide Britain with a new discrimination law which protects individuals from unfair treatment and promotes a fair and more equal society. The nine main pieces of legislation that have merged are: • Equal Pay Act 1970 • Sex Discrimination Act 1975 • Race Relations Act 1976 • Disability Discrimination Act 1995 • Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 • Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 • Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 • Equality Act 2006, Part 2 • Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007 1.3 Outline why legislation relating to employment exists: Legislation and regulations are established to provide a framework of acceptable practice which all who are governed by that framework must adhere to.
Any reports before the 1st October 2010 the Equality Act cannot help resolve the matter. Instead the victim will have to go to a legislation Act that was apparent at the time. The Act was brought in to prevent discrimination in a work place and bring the Sex discrimination Act 1975, Race relations Act 1976 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 together into one single Act, called the Equality Act 2010 or the Equal Opportunities Act 2010 (Gov.Uk, 2013). The equal opportunities legislation comes from the equality Act 2010. It is a law that has been put into place to prevent any discrimination against; age, sex, race, disabilities, religion, gender and sexual orientation in a work place or in society generally.
The Impact of Reverse Racism Reverse racism is also known as reverse discrimination. Reverse discrimination is defined as laws and policies which deny certain opportunities, jobs, employment, contracts, and educational admissions to “whites” in favor of other, government-defined “disadvantaged” racial groups. Sometimes these policies and laws are collectively, if historically inaccurately, referred to as “Affirmative Action” (www.adversity.net). Racial discrimination in any way is not acceptable. The government has created a form of discrimination to combat previous discrimination; this is not even a levelheaded thought, programs and or laws supporting it such as Affirmative Action are immoral and should be abolished.