Legalisation
Employment Laws.
Equal Pay Act
The equal pay act is when men and woman do the same job and are payed the same. Employers may wish to carry out a pay audit to ensure that their workers are getting equal pay
Disability Discrimination Act
The Disability Discrimination Act provides people with disabilitys protection from discrimination where they work.Employers must make reasonable adjustments to accommodate a worker with a disability.Disabled employees are protected from harassment at work.Employers should have polices in place to prevent discrimination.
Race Relations Act
The Race Relations Act (RRA) 1976 amended 2000 makes it unlawful to treat a person less favourably than another on racial grounds. These cover grounds of race, colour, nationality (including citizenship), and national or ethnic origin. The act was enforced in order to promote racial harmony.
Employment Tribunal
Employment Tribunals deal with problems within employment such as Unfair Dismissal Redundancy Payments and Discrimination within the work place.
Trade Unions
A trade union is a group of people who join together to negotiate pay, hours, benefits, and working conditions. Union members and supporters of unions claim that they are necessary because the people that run companies want to pay as little as possible. In the USA they are usually called labour unions
Sex Discrimination Act
It is illegal to discriminate against someone because of their gender. Employers are required to prevent discrimination as much as possible. This is done during recruitment and selection, determining pay, training and development, selection for promotion, discipline and grievances, countering bullying and harassment.
Health And Saftey at work act
The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 It is one of the main legislations that cover occupational health and safety in the UK. Securing the health, safety and welfare of persons at work, protecting persons other than persons at work against risks to health or safety arising out of or in connection with the activities of persons at work, keeping control of dangerous and flammable substances.
Minimum Wage Act
The Minimum Wage Legislation is the minimum amount a worker gets paid an hour. The minimum wage must be met regardless of how much work is done. The minimum wage rate is dependant on the age of the worker. Workers can check if they’re getting the minimum wage or whether an employer owes them payments from past jobs. Employers can check if they’re paying the minimum wage or whether they owe a worker payments from past jobs
Gross Misconduct
Conduct on the part of an employee which is so bad that it destroys the employer/employee relationship, and merits instant dismissal without notice or pay instead of notice.
Employment Rights Act
The Employment Act 2008 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which reformed a number of issues from random elements of UK labour law. It is an amending statute, and therefore simply altered pre-existing law to remedy perceived problems in the law's operation to do with dispute resolution, strengthen enforcement of the minimum wage and employment agency standards and to conform with updated case law on trade unions.
Civil courts
Civil courts (not to be confused with the civil-law legal system) deal with “private” controversies, particularly disputes that arise between individuals or between private businesses or institutions (e.g., a disagreement over the terms of a contract or over who shall bear responsibility for an automobile accident).