UK Employment Law and Corporate Social Responsibility in Business

This report discusses the broad structure of UK Employment Law and its impact on employers and employees. It also explores the extent to which corporations take Corporate Social Responsibility seriously in the UK. The report covers the primary pieces of legislation on Employment law, the protection of employees, and the impact of current employment law in the UK. Additionally, it discusses the implementation of CSR in the UK and its benefits. The report concludes that business relationships between employers and employees are required for progress in the global business environment, and CSR has become a necessity rather than a need.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................2
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Discuss the broad structure of UK Employment Law and indicate who you think UK
Employment Law favours – either employers or employees .....................................................3
Discuss the extent to which corporations take Corporate Social Responsibility Seriously........4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
INTRODUCTION
UK Employment laws are the set of complicated and most important rules and other
legal considerations which governs the relationship between employees and their employers,
with special reference to employees right. On part of employers , what they are entitled to
provide to their employees. There are many primary pieces of legislation on Employment
law which governs employment in UK are as follows: Equality Act 2010, Employment
Rights Act 1996, Health and Safety Rights Act 1974, Data Protection Act 1998, Work Time
Regulation 1998(Bezzina, 2020). employment law is important it helps to protect employees
and its employers and effectively promote equality, diversity and inclusion at work. The
following report is going to cover the two aspects where one is the employment laws of the
country and the ways in which they work while favouring the employers and employees.
Furthermore, the other part of the report discusses the extent to which the companies are
taking the CSR activities.

TASK
Discuss the broad structure of UK Employment Law and indicate who you think UK
Employment Law favours – either employers or employees
Employment law in United Kingdom derived from three major sources: common
law(customs and court precedents), legislation supplemented the common law rules and
European law. Wherein UK, many disputes arises between employees and employers which is
heard by tribunals and not by the civil courts , the constitution of tribunal came into existence
since 1970 and it has its own rules and regulation and placed completely independent from civil
court. If a party wish to appeal the order of the tribunal it may bring it into the employment
appeals tribunals and further appeal to court of appeal and supreme court . As it is settled that
UK left the European union, most laws ended its jurisdiction application over UK as on 31st
December 2020. the European Union (withdrawal) Act 2018 states the of European Union law
after 31st December automatically transferred into UK domestic law when the transition period
ends. There are nearly 4 million limited companies listed in the united kingdom , in which up to
21 million full-time employees employed(Crowther and Seifi, 2018) .
The other part of UK employment is it endeavours to protect employees , from hiring
practices to working process in the workplace and fair pay . Employment law in UK directs
business organisation to pay the National Minimum Wage , as per Equality Act 2010 employees
are covered at the first instance when they apply for the job , under which prohibition action is
undertaken in order to stop the discrimination against the candidates . Every member of the staff
protected by Health and Safety Laws at work place to ensure that all members have to safe
working environment. Employment law covers the wide area of the legal administration and
aims to spread its jurisdiction which is based on governing processes and policies of businesses
including employees and employers relationship. Having said that its wide range applicability of
legislation emerging exhaustive list of the employment areas. The most common areas which
generally come into question are contracts related to employment , offer and acceptance of
employment , pay rate , holiday entitlement , official working hours , grievance procedures ,
disciplinary procedure , maternity and paternity leave , forms of discrimination and its preventive
actions , equality and diversity in the workplace ,friendly adjustment for employees with
disabilities and many more(Freedl and 2020).

The impact of the current employment law in United Kingdom by and large
unacceptable, many think that the laws on employment preventing growth of the employees as to
unfair dismissal of the employees by their employers without any just reasons and complexity of
procedures for filing claim in tribunal seems legislation are more concern with the interests of
the employers rather than employees and it has been seen that now businesses are unwilling to
recruits new candidates for fear of running distasteful . A number of issues are being considered
in order to provide benefit to both employers and employees . In response to this concerns there
have been various consultation being conducted by the department of the businesses, innovation
and skills and to tackle the internal issues of unfair dismissal of employees. Since April 2012 to
pursue claim in grounds of unfair dismissal increased from one year to two years, this
amendment may give some relief to the employers to some extent by which employers will get
some time to assess employees performance. A raw statistic show that nearly 40 percent of
claims which are one-sided dismissal were upheld during the year 2010-11, to address this
concern the government took reasonable steps to redress the issue (Gooberman and
Hauptmeier, 2022). Now , with effect from April 2012 European tribunal will be able to award a
maximum of 20,000 pounds costs against an defeated party. The effect of such changes may well
redress the balance in favour of employers .
Discuss the extent to which corporations take Corporate Social Responsibility Seriously.
In light of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its implementation in the
United Kingdom , at some extent it plays an significant roles in business proceedings and
standardization of CSR policy(Xia, et.al., 2018). At present scenario, CSR is an international
concern -as the media and international covenants can impact businesses and enterprises,
irrespective of borders. The current CSR jurisdiction and its policy in the United Kingdom
bringing important advances. Since , the UK left the European Union , popularly known as
Brexit, as on 31 January 2020, it emerged as a new found sovereign with its own financial
services as well as banking industry, super market sector and multidisciplinary culture
influence it to execute and evaluate its CSR practices to establish compliance with other
countries and implementation strategies. Research found that United Kingdom more focused
on four objectives as its fundamentals , with aide and support from the government; to

support the planet , employees, customers and communities in order to examine the
practicing nature of CSR activities undertaken by the enterprises in the UK, the two sectors
of business is most likely be focused upon are retail and banking. Almost every business
enterprises involved in range of CSR activities ; environmental management , improving of
working standard and condition, promoting educational and social program, volunteering
service, development of employee and community relations. As CSR emerged into a
comprehensive system of day to day business activities , mandatory CSR emphasize to act in
a socially responsible way in order to enhance the business performance of the corporation .
The responsibilities includes the compliance with the business ethics and the trading
mannerism the health and the wage system of the labors shall be managed accordingly so as
to prevent from any disputes(Khan, et.al., 2019).
CSR demands distinct mode of operation at strategic levels, to ensure that its basic
requirements of priorities are met such as trust in the organization , fixed code of conduct,
strong leadership and performance measures establish trustworthy corporate behavior. There
are many positive thoughts made on this and suggested that organization can contribute to
business aim by implementing CSR principles . In order to achieve the opportunities , it is
essential to co -ordinate CSR activities at broad level . CSR benefits are long term and they
can be experienced by an intangible form as they are designed to avoid problems rather than
achieving the goals , there are plenty of existing examples which is an evidence to show that
how some organizations have succeeded by abiding the rules of the CSR (Knudsen, 2018).
The other benefits of CSR includes: increase in consumer trust or brand, a strong image of
corporate , increase in loyalty and engagement, enhanced an ability to to attract and engage
younger employees. In all Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) proved significant and it
has become a necessity rather than a need.
CONCLUSION
As per the above research and analysis it can be conclude that for the progress in the global
business environment business relationships between employer and employee is required and
covers the large area of legal system and related subjects along with employment protection
legislation which are passed in light of corporate social responsibility . Further the CSR is
equally one of the significant aspect in business world , in general term CSR means managing a

business in a way which takes the responsibility of the consequences of the organisations
activities on community and concerns for the interests of stakeholders . It may also concerns on
making a positive contribution to society ,hence bring a positive and friendly environment at
workplace .

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bezzina, C., 2020. A comparative analysis of the concept of redundancy in employment and
kindred consequences between Maltese law and UK law (Bachelor's thesis, University
of Malta).
Crowther, D. and Seifi, S. eds., 2018. Redefining corporate social responsibility. Emerald Group
Publishing.
Freedland, M., 2020. Employment Law Revisited. Dalhousie LJ, 43, p.515.
Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M., 2022. Employers' organizations and the territorial
divergence of employment relations in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
In Contemporary Employers' Organizations (pp. 213-228). Routledge.
Khan, N., et.al., 2019. Diversity in the workplace: An overview of disability employment
disclosures among UK firms. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental
Management, 26(1), pp.170-185.
Knudsen, J.S., 2018. Government regulation of international corporate social responsibility in
the US and the UK: How domestic institutions shape mandatory and supportive
initiatives. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 56(1), pp.164-188.
Xia, B., et.al., 2018. Conceptualising the state of the art of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
in the construction industry and its nexus to sustainable development. Journal of cleaner
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