Employment Law and Ethics: Case Scenario, Constructive Dismissal, and Ethical Perspective

Business Law and
Ethics

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Analysis and Discussion..................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Employment law provides rules and regulations to regulate the relationship of an
employer and an employee this laws specifically provides the details on how an employer and an
employee must behave in an organisation or in a working environment. There are various laws
that comes under the law of employment(Aveskulov, 2020). The acts which are part of the
employment law are: Employments right Act, 1996, Employment relations Act, 1999, national
minimum wages act, 1998, and many more. There are also many legislations that comes under
the ambit of employment laws for maintaining the relationship. This report consist of the case
scenario with the help of which employment and its common rules are explained. It also explains
about constructive dismissal and ethical perspectives under the law.
Analysis and Discussion
Case Scenario
The given case scenario is about the Ethical dilemmas at work. The facts of the cases are
provided below.
Linda was working as an accounts assistant and was under probation of 6 months at a
local retail company. She had problem to commute because of which she was often late to work.
One day she discovered major fraud of which she reported to the Chief accountant, Charles and
also to her Supervisor, Heather (Grusic, 2019).Both of them ignore her reporting. Both Charles
and heather were married and still were making attempts at Linda. Charles gave £20K to
purchase car for commuting to office. A week later the questioning was done by the
administration to which Linda is now implicated into.
Define Employment and explain what type of worker Linda is.
Employment is defined as work agreement which is paid in nature. This is between the
employer and the employee where employee renders services to which he is paid by the
employer. The employees under the employment are controlled by the employer. Terms and
conditions under this are negotiable and this is the type of agreement which parties may
terminate. There are three types of employment, i.e. employee, casual workers and self
employed.