Employment Laws: Regulations, Contracts, Discrimination, and More

EMPLOYMENT LAWS
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Purpose of employment regulation..................................................................................................2
Aims and objectives.....................................................................................................................2
Role of tribunal and court system................................................................................................2
Settlement of cases before and during formal legal procedure....................................................2
Managing recruitment and selection activities................................................................................2
Discrimination laws.....................................................................................................................2
Employment contracts.................................................................................................................2
Managing change and reorganization..............................................................................................2
Manner of changing contracts.....................................................................................................2
Requirements of redundancy law................................................................................................2
Requirements on business transfers.............................................................................................2
Managing pay and working time.....................................................................................................2
Stakeholder rights in field of pay, leave and working time.........................................................2
Equal pay law..............................................................................................................................2
Key maternity, paternity and other employment laws.................................................................2
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Treating staff lawfully.....................................................................................................................2
Requirements of health and safety law........................................................................................2
Implied duties regarding management of employees..................................................................2
Freedom of association................................................................................................................2
Managing performance and disciplinary matters............................................................................2
Unfair dismissal regarding misconduct and capability................................................................2
Employee right to be accompanied at serious discipline and grievance hearings.......................2
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................2
Primary Sources...........................................................................................................................2
Cases........................................................................................................................................2
Statutes and statutory instruments...........................................................................................2
Secondary Sources.......................................................................................................................2
Books.......................................................................................................................................2
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Introduction
The employment law of UK is encompassed with a group of legislation which is combined
together and which regulate one or the other aspect of the employment. It includes the different
legislations like the Working Time Regulations of 19981, Equal Pay Act of 19702, Employment
Rights Act of 19963 and Equality Act of 20104. The employment law basically governs the
relationship during the employment of an employee with their employer. The employment laws
also help in regulation of the rights of the employees and also of what can be reasonably
expected by the employer from the employee5. The following parts cover a discussion on the
different aspects of employment law of the nation, particularly which are crucial for human
resource personnel.
Purpose of employment regulation
Aims and objectives
The key aim or the objective of the employment law is to make certain that each person in the
workplace is treated in a manner which can be deemed as fair and reasonable. Another purpose
of the employment law is to make certain that the people are treated on the basis of principles of
natural justice6.
1 Working Time Regulations, 1998
2 Equal Pay Act, 1970
3 Employment Rights Act, 1996
4 Equality Act, 2010
5 Simon Honeyball, Honeyball & Bowers' Textbook on Employment Law (14th edn, Oxford University Press 2016)
6 Kathy Daniels, Employment Law: An Introduction for HR and Business Students (3rd edn, Chartered Institute of
Personnel and Development 2012)
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