UK Classification and Source of Law and Impact on Multilingual Organizations and Commercial Organizations

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the UK classification of law within UK context, the UK source of law, the impact of respective laws on multilingual organizations, and the features of employment law. It also gives examples of how the UK law making procedure has a direct impact on commercial organizations.

Business Law

The UK classification of law within UK context
(I) Provide a clear definition of law within UK context
An act which is passed by parliament is responsible for enforcing it on the citizen of
country and it is called as law. The acts are majorly passed into both the houses of parliament
and the names of those houses are house of commons and house of lords. There are particular
and specific process regarding the imposition of law about various topics and problems into
community by enforcement of it on citizens which is followed by them in legal manner. In type
of process first one is explanation of bills in on both houses of parliament which is explained by
respective management of parliament houses. The procedure of discussion with help of
analytical and brief research and analysis is signed or permitted by parliament of both houses
which then carried through the formation of law. The permission of such types of bills develops
the evaluation of law which is enforced on the citizens of country.
(ii) Define and discuss the characteristics of two main classification of law in United
Kingdom
The two main classification of in UK are described below -
 Criminal law – This type of law is defined as the criminal liability of individual which is
generally dealing with the effect of criminal record of individual. The various matters
which include robbery, thug, murder, sexual exploitation, sedition, rape, dowry death etc.
are examples of heinous cases of criminal matters. This type of is majorly consist of
critical and very harsh punishment such as death and life imprisonment. It is also
responsible for restricting the individual in limited boundaries with the barrier of this
communication and travelling level with restriction to boundaries globally.
 Civil law – This type of law majorly depicts the civil liability of individual for validating
his status in the community which is generally comes under the category of duties and
fines to be paid, comprises of civil law. This kind of law evaluated the relationship
between various person and legal entity or other enterprise. The matters such as property,
land, area, status and ownership rights, negotiable instruments, such as bonds, checks etc.
are dealing in the civil law.

(iii) Identify the three different legal systems in UK
There is a domination of three legal systems which is recognized and government by the
UK country. The legal system of Wales and England, Scotland and Northern Ireland are the three
various legal systems in UK country. The country of Wales and England have the legal system
which is common. Scotland and Northern Ireland has distinct and separate legal system due to
having their historical background and distinct culture. These types of legal systems are totally
unique due to its distinctive and varied culture and societal norms (Birkmose, 2018). These kinds
of legal systems are unique also because of its geographical limitations and boundaries. There
are various laws and statues that are enforceable and applied on specific parts but these are not
enforceable to others. Therefore, the enforcement and implication of law on various parts are
comprised in to three different legal systems in the UK country.
The UK Source of law
(I) Identify and briefly explains the hierarchy of the principal sources of laws in the English
Legal System
The hierarchy of principal sources of law in the English legal system constitutes of
majorly of supreme authority in enforcement of law which is known as the constitution of the
UK country that executes and enforced different kinds of amendments and acts for the order and
law of country for maintaining order and peace in community. In the source of law the first
hierarchy is the constitution which is follows by majorly two separate laws of State and Centre.
The state and central are highly imbibed for the clear justification of legal system with
responsibility of higher authorities in country. The Central government executes and legalise the
laws in various central areas state government legalise and executes the laws according to state
wise.
(ii) Explain the characteristics of the sources of laws identified above giving examples of
each
The important sources of laws are mainly consisting of rules, legislation, customs, orders,
precedents and case laws which are already decided that cases are one of the primary and
important sources of law.
The various characteristics of the sources of law are described below -

 The country of legal system are enforced the regulation of equality in order to facilitate
equal and effective treatment to individuals irrespective of their gender, race, caste and
others.
 It believed in maintaining and establishing cordial relationship among individual and the
society.
 The country of legal system is very limited and dynamic with carrying the option of
expand its boundaries according to the challenging laws and rules. It is also beneficial for
establishing peace in society with help of managing law effectively in country.
 This kind of system is highly complicated and complex in nature in aspect of averting
legal obligations (Claassen and Gerbrandy, 2018).
(iii) Discuss the impact of the respective laws on the multilingual organization
In context to globalization, it played positive role in the activities of business for
expanding their services at global manner and due this they formed the separate multilinguistic
departments in form of language which is consider as important barrier for any company during
the time of expanding their business in the international market which support in understanding
the various cultures and requirements of market locally. It is also responsible for occurring the
society with its practice in the sector of education which aids enhancing awareness about
diversified and different cultures of society between people. Such type of practices is related
with the multilingualism which is useful for addressing the authenticity of specific place or
region. Therefore, it is highly crucial for company to establish the practice of multilingualism for
develop the understanding of classifiable language at one place which support for recognizing its
validity in culture of specific arena. That means the result of respective laws on multilingual
establishment is that it assists in development and growth of specific arena by providing
recognition to minority class in national level with help of formulating of different policies in
aspect diversified culture of region.
Give examples of how the UK law making procedure have a direct impact on
commercial organizations focusing on ONE of below list
Explain and give the features of one of the following laws
Employment law -

Employment law is only a part of business law which governs the relationship between
employee and employer effectively. It played the important role in systematic functioning of
business companies. It is highly emphasised on safeguarding the workers’ rights against
employers. In aspect of employment law, it is one of the useful laws which protects the
individuals and ensured various rights to the person during the time of entering in other
employment contract. It considers law as broad manner which covered different parts and which
are highly essential for run the business in systematic manner. Because here workers are
considered as most valuable asset for organization and due to this it is the responsibility of
employer that they facilitate important facility to their workers. It also ensured workers against
discrimination, gender equality and equal pay for equal work and minimum wages. It covered the
evaluation and non-recognition of various trade unions (Crepelle, 2020). It is basically
consolidation of various legislations which are crucial for effective operation of business
company which are followed -
Employment right act 1996 – It is one type of upgradation of employment law which states
safeguard the against wrongful dismissal and also ensured the right of maternity leaves, paternity
leaves, unfair dismissal and claim against redundancy etc. The rights conferred are for a
worker to not be subjected to a detriment by his or her employer for leaving
or refusing to return to his or her workplace or for taking steps to protect
himself or herself in circumstances of danger which the worker reasonably
believes to be serious and imminent.
Act of equity 2010 – It safeguarded against discrimination took place at the time of procedure of
recruitment and the work place. It mentioned the secured features that are not utilized as factor
for decision in the work place.
National wages act 1998 – The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 sets out the minimum
amount of pay a worker is entitled to per hour. This wage is based on a worker's age. There is
also a specific rate for apprentices. The government of United Kingdom enacted such type of act
with intention to safeguard the right of employees against their employers. In this type of act
government played down minimum wages which employer have to pay their employees; such
wages are varied according to age group. It is a legal requirement for employers to pay workers
the national minimum wage. Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HRMC) have the authority to
take employers to court if they are not paying workers the national minimum wage. The National

Minimum Wage Act 1998 sets out the basic legal framework for the National Minimum Wage in
the United Kingdom and amends agricultural workers’ legislation. It is a framework Act that
provides for the detailed provision of its operation in Regulations. The Act clearly defines the
various types of discrimination, including direct and indirect forms, and other prohibited conduct
such as victimisation and harassment, offering a basic framework of protection against the range
of discrimination that can take place.
Equity act 2010: This act enacted with the purpose of preventing discrimination take place at
work place and the recruitment process. It laid down protected features which couldn't use as
cause for decision of any work place. The Equality Act 2010 includes provisions that ban age
discrimination against adults in the provision of services and public functions. The ban came into
force on 1 October 2012 and it is now unlawful to discriminate on the basis of age unless (Graef,
2019). The ban on age discrimination is designed to ensure that the new law prohibits only
harmful treatment that results in genuinely unfair discrimination because of age. It does not
outlaw the many instances of different treatment that are justifiable or beneficial. The Act also
specifies that individuals can be protected from this discrimination at work, in education, as a
consumer, when using public services, when buying or renting property or as a member or guest
of a private club or association.
Part time worker Act 2000: The Regulations apply to all workers and all businesses, including
small businesses. Less favourable treatment of a part-time worker will be justified on objective
grounds if it can be shown it is necessary and appropriate to achieve a legitimate business
objective. The purpose of implementing such act is to determine the rights of the part time
workers against the unequal treatment done by the employers with their full-time workers. To
decide whether there has been the unlawful treatment of a part-time worker they will be able to
compare themselves with full-time workers on similar contracts working for the same firm. If
there is no full-time worker in the same firm doing similar work the part-timer can compare
themselves with a full-timer engaged in similar work in a different establishment for the same
employer. As statistically most part-time workers are women, an employer could also face a
claim for sex discrimination by discriminating against part-timers. Employers, therefore, have to
ensure that even if different treatment between part-timers and full-timers can be justified on
objective grounds that such grounds are unrelated to the sex of the employee and there is no
disproportionate impact on women.

Data protection act 2018: It explains the general data protection regime that applies to most
UK businesses and organisations. It covers the UK General Data Protection Regulation, tailored
by the Data Protection Act 2018. This act is considering as most trending enactment for
commercial organisations which states about the protection of personal information of the
employees by their employers. The Data Protection Act 1998 served us well and placed the UK
at the front of global data protection standards. The 2018 Act modernises data protection laws in
the UK to make them fit-for-purpose for our increasingly digital economy and society. As part of
this the 2018 Act applies the EU’s GDPR standards, preparing Britain for Brexit. By having
strong data protection laws and appropriate safeguards, businesses will be able to operate across
international borders. This ultimately underpins global trade and having unhindered data flows is
essential to the UK in forging its own path as an ambitious trading partner. The importance of
data protection increases as the amount of data created and stored continues to grow at
unprecedented rates (Hiller and Jones, 2022). There is also little tolerance for downtime that can
make it impossible to access important information. Consequently, a large part of a data
protection strategy is ensuring that data can be restored quickly after any corruption or loss.
Protecting data from compromise and ensuring data privacy are other key components of data
protection.
For example, Commercial companies need to follows various types of laws which are
favourable for employees and employer both. Officials’ personnel are the valuable asset for
company and the improvement of such companies are based on the effective activities of their
workers. So, it is the responsibility of firm is to protect the rights of their personnel effective
manner. They both have obligations and right toward each other’s which are as follows during
the time of evaluation of contract of employment, it is the responsibility of an employee that they
specifically laid down the rights and duties of them in legible form.
 They have right to get effective working environment, regularly provide proper and
safety tools as per their works and provide medical and insurance facilities to their
employees.
 As per employees act an employee’s ensure the right to get sick leave, holidays, proper
working tools etc.
 they have right against wrongful dismissal, claims to redundancy, equal treatment with
part time worker and full-time worker etc.

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