Business Law and Ethics: Employment, Constructive Dismissal, and Ethical Perspectives

Business Law and
Ethics

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
1. Define employment and what type of worker Linda is...........................................................3
2. Explain the common rules in context to employment law......................................................4
3. What is constructive dismissal and advise Linda as to whether this is the option to consider.
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4. Discuss this case in context to various ethical perspectives at play and advise Linda on it.. .5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The business law and ethics are the terms which are not used interchangeably. At times,
there are situations when the companies take many actions which are legally right on one hand
but are not ethically correct. Business law provides minimum standards for the behaviour which
the firms are expected to follow and ethics goes beyond the legality as they provides the ways in
which the business is required to behave (Saba, 2019). It is important to have strict enforcement
of law in companies so that there is no working beyond the purview of law. This report shall
cover the ethical dilemma at workplace in context to employment law.
MAIN BODY
Case scenario
Linda began to work in local company of retailer as account assistant where she joined
three months ago with the probation period of six months. The main challenge in her work was
she was always late for it. During her probation, she found that Charles, Chief accountant is
involved in some fraud. She reported her suspicion to Heather, line supervisor but he ignored the
matter. After few days, when she was going home, she found Charles and Heather at wine bar
where they were socialising and embracing each other passionately. Linda pretended to not have
noticed them but the next day Heather brought this topic jokingly that they saw Linda. Both
Heather and Charles have different spouses and they both attempted to but silence of her by
befriended her and began to invite her in wine bar. Charles even wrote to Linda the cheque of
company 0of 20000 pounds in order to purchase the car as she was always late for work. Charles
also offered her the ticket to Spain for holiday. After few time, company went into
administration and administrator wants to ask the question regarding the fraud to which Linda is
implicated.
1. Define employment and what type of worker Linda is.
Employment is the term which is defined as a relationship of two people, based on
contract where the work which is involved is paid and the parties are an employer and the
employee (Dau-Schmidt and et. al., 2017). Under the employment law of UK, there are mainly
four different types of workers and each worker is entrusted with different employment
protection rights. These are narrated below-