Business Law and Ethics: UK Employment Law and Corporate Social Responsibility

Business Law
and Ethics

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Main body........................................................................................................................................1
Task-.......................................................................................................................................1
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

Introduction
The business law basically works for the smooth functioning of the business in any firm.
The business law explains about the statues that are passed by the legislations in order to make
the business free from unfair trade practices that is done by the businessman. Moreover, there are
different laws that deals with the business(Albitar, et.al, 2021). These business laws are the
Employment laws, Equality act, 2010. It explains about the provisions that are related to the
relations of the employer and the employee that works in an organisation. This essay will discuss
about the different employment laws that are applicable in the United Kingdom. It also explains
about the rights and duties of the employer and the employee. This essay also studies about the
corporate social responsibility that is trending in the present market scenario all over the globe.
Main body
Task-
1. Discuss the broad structure of UK Employment Law and indicate who you think UK
Employment Law favours – either employers or employees.
2. Discuss the extent to which corporations take Corporate Social Responsibility Seriously.
The employment law contains a statute that is known as the National Minimum Wage
Act, 1998. This statue provides for the minimum wage that must be given to the employee
working for an employee. This law basically protects the employees from exploitation due to
their helpless condition. There are various cases where these illiterate and unskilled workers find
it difficult to get the work. So, these workers gets ready to work for a very less pay as compare to
what pay they are eligible for. Moreover, the employers takes the benefit of this condition of
these helpless employees. So, this act provides these workers to get at least paid the minimum
wage which is regulated timely by the government of the country (Bargain, et.al, 2019) .
The Equality Act, 2010 explains about that no employee or worker face discrimination in
an organization or the company in which they are working. This act mainly specifies the 9
grounds on the basis of which no employee can be treated unequally by the employer of the
company. These grounds includes the sex, gender, religion, sexual orientation nature, race, caste,
etc. hence, no employee can be treated unequally under this act. Moreover, if any unequal
treatment happens, then the employee can go to civil courts in order to deliver the justice by the
court of the country(Bhatia and Makkar, 2019). There is also a another type of employment law
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