Employment Law: A Comprehensive Guide

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Employment Law (5EML/07)
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EMPLOYMENT LAW

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
1.1 The aims and objectives of employment regulations............................................................4
1.2 The role played by the tribunal and courts system in enforcing employment laws..............5
1.3 Ways to settle the cases before and during the formal legal procedure................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
2.1 The main principles of discrimination law in recruitment and selection and in
employment.................................................................................................................................6
2.2 Establishment of contracts of employment...........................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 When and how contracts can be changed lawfully...............................................................7
3.2 The main requirements of redundancy law...........................................................................8
3.3 The main requirements of the law on business transfers. ....................................................9
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
4.1 Identification of major statutory rights workers have in the field of leave, pay and working
time..............................................................................................................................................9
4.2 Major requirements of equal pay law..................................................................................10
4.3 Explanation of major maternity, paternity and family friendly employment rights...........10
TASK 5..........................................................................................................................................11
5.1 Major requirements of health and safety law......................................................................11
5.2 Significance of implied duties as regards the management of employees at work.............12
5.3 Principles of the law on freedom of association.................................................................12
TASK 6..........................................................................................................................................13
6.1 Main requirements of unfair dismissal law for capability and misconduct issues..............13
6.2 Explanation of scope of the right for employees to be accompanied at serious discipline
and grievance hearing...............................................................................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Employment law is the collection of laws ad roles that regulate the relationship between employers
and employees. Employment laws say when an employer can hire employees and when the employees can
work (Bagenstos, 2019). The laws cover what employer must pay the employee for their work. When an
employer wants to hire someone, there are lots of laws that employer must follow. It is very important to
provide wages and salaries to employees as well as provide them with safe working environment. These are
the laws that prohibits the employer from the discriminating against applicants or employees based on certain
characteristics.
In this present report, Captify company is being chosen for assessment. It is a small and medium scale
organisation that deals in data driven display specialising in search intelligence and media decisions. Adam
Ludwin and Dominic Joseph are the co-founders of Captify which is launched in 2011. Company has achieved
£1 million profit in the first years of its operations and 2015 company has increased gross revenue by 300%
and employee base from 11 to 65. Company is achieving the greatest heights.
This present report will make understand about the importance of employment laws and regulations
as well as ways to enforced them in practice. Further, report will also include the ways to manage recruitment
and selection legally,
TASK 1
1.1 The aims and objectives of employment regulations.
The framework or actions that guide the relationship in between employer and employees is called as
employment regulations. It is very important for organisations to follow all the employment regulations.
Organisation also apply the employment laws in their practices so that they can smoothly run the organisation
(Milligan and et.al., 2017). The aim of the employment regulations is to protect the employees from
discrimination.
Here are the objectives of labour laws are as follows:
Employer-Employee Fairness: Employment regulations act promotes the fair system within
organisation as it regulates the wages of employees and establishes the minimum wage as well as overtime
payments (
Employment Law United Kingdom, 2019). It also governs the child labour practices as no employer
is allowed to recruit children at workplace.
Employee Safety: This is another objective of employment regulation as employers under these laws
are legally bounded to provide healthy and safe working environment to the employees. Employees should
feel safe at the workplace. The human resource team of Captify used to provide training on how to use the
equipment and tools within organisation. For example, the case of Kennedy v Cordia [2016], In this case
Kennedy has felt down because of sleepy floor that has led to serious injury to Kennedy for which Cordia has to
pay to her.
Protection from Disability: Laws also govern employer that how they have to behave with employees
as not any person can be discriminated against their disability. Opportunities should be provided equally by
employer to disable employees as similar to able person.