Managing Pay, Working Time, Performance and Disciplinary Matters Lawfully - Presentation

This presentation explains the employment laws related to managing pay, working time, performance and disciplinary matters lawfully. It covers recent changes in National Minimum/Living Wage, Working Time Regulations regarding holiday pay, equal pay provisions of the Equality Act, maternity, paternity, adoption rights and shared parental leave, and the right to be accompanied at formal meetings. The presentation also discusses good practices in managing capability and conduct. This is relevant for the EML assessment activity 3 template.

M a n a g i n g p a y , w o r k i n g t i m e ,
p e r f o r m a n c e a n d d i s c i p l i n a r y
m a t t e r s l a w f u l l y - p r e s e n t a t i o n
EML assessment activity 3 template
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Introduction
• The employment law explains about the law that
defines the relationship between the employer and
the employee of the organisation.
• The employment laws are formulated for the
welfare of the employees I the company.
• These laws provides for the duties and the rights of
the employer and the employee of the
organisation(Biagioli and Lippman, 2020). Moreover,
it would also provide for the working hours, leaves,
holidays to the employees of the company.
• Moreover, the employment laws include the
Employment Rights Act, Equality Act, Minimum
Wages Act, etc. these laws explains about the
mandatory conditions that is to be followed by each
and every employer of the country.

Ma in Bo d y
1 . Th e r ece n t c h a n g es t o:
Na t io n a l M in im u m /Li vin g W ag e, W or kin g Ti me R eg u la t io n s re g a rd in g h ol id a y p ay an d wo rk in g t i me fo r m o b il e/fi eld -b as ed wo rke rs ( 4 .1 )
• The national minimum wage is the wage that is
to be paid to every employee who is working in
an organisation.
• This amount is set up regularly by the
authorities of the company. Moreover, these
are changed as per the national economy and
the inflation rate of the country.
• The rate of minimum wage changes every year
by the government of the
country(Choroszewicz and Tremblay, 2018). The
minimum wage act is regulated as per the
provisions of the Minimum Wage Act of the
country.

Working Time Regulations regarding holiday pay
• The working time is the time that is given by
the employee to the organisation in which he
or she is working. Moreover, the working
time of the employee is regulated by the
employment laws of the country.
• There are various changes that take place in
the past years with regard to the working
conditions of the employees.
• This can be seen the the working conditions
of the employees has been improved from
the last few years as per the amendments in
the act(Kaufman, 2018).

Equal pay provisions of the Equality
Act and gender gap reporting
• The Equality Act, 2010 was formulated by
merging nine acts of the country with reference
to the employment laws.
• The Equality Act provides for the nine protective
characteristics and grounds on which no
discrimination can be done by the management
of the company.
• These nine characteristics on which the
inequality cannot be done are the race, religion,
sex, sexual orientation, gender, caste, pregnancy,
disability and the maternity condition of the
women employee. These grounds plays an
important role in protecting the employees from
the discrimination in an organisation

Maternity, Paternity, Adoption Rights and Shared
Parental Leave
• The maternity is the time period that would include the
time period of the pre pregnancy and the post
pregnancy of the women. Earlier there were less time
period given to the women for the maternity.
• But, the amendments has been done in the employment
act which provides for adequate time period for the
maternity to the women employees of the company.
• Moreover, the act provides that the female employee is
entitled for fifty two weeks of maternity leave as per the
act of the country. The act also provide that the
maternity leaves is paid by the employer of the
company(Ringbauer Novembre and Steinrücken, 2021).

Shared Parental Leave
• The shared parental leave can be entitled to an
employee who has spouse. This can be used by any of
the employee of the company in addition to the paid
maternity leaves of the employee. But, the employee
must tell about the shared parental leave to his
employee as soon as possible.
• This is taken to provide help to the family of the
employee in all the cases. There are many changes that
has been taken place in the shared parental leaver.
Earlier there were n provisions related to this shared
parental leaves.
• But from the last few years, these leaves has taken
effect in the present company. The company has to be
take initiatives in order to provide for the shared
parental leaves to the employees of the company.

The right to be accompanied at formal meetings
• The section 10 of the Employees Relations Act 1999
provides for the right to be accompanied by the
employees of the company. Moreover, such meeting
must be related to the disciplinary action that is
taken against them in the company.
• These types of meetings is to be attended by the
employees of the company. Moreover, it would also
provide that the company need to comply with the
disciplinary actions on the regular basis.
• These actions moreover includes the suspension
without the salary, demotion, dismissal, formal
warning to the employee of the company.

2. Good practice in managing capability and
managing conduct (6.1)
• The capability can be defined as the ability to work
by an individual in an organisation. Moreover, the
capability of an individual can be administered by
the skill that the individual posses in himself.
• These skills are very important for every employee
in order to comply with the functions in the
organisation under which the worker is employed.
• The company can also take various actions against
the employees when they do misconduct in the
company. Moreover, the capability of an individual
would influence him to work in a proper way.

Conclusion
• The above report concludes about the employment law of the country. This
report explains about the misconduct of the employees in an organisation. It
also concludes about about the provisions related to the dismissal of the
employees as the disciplinary actions taken by them in an organisation.
• Moreover, this report also summarises about the changes that has been taken
place in the maternity leaves, parental leaves and the shared parental leavers.
It also concludes about the role and the importance of the gender gap
reporting in an organisations as per the present law of the country.
• It also summarises about the changes that has been taken place with respect
to the equal pay for the equal working an organisation. This report also
concludes about the role of the Employment Rights Act in an organisation.