Business Law and Ethics: UK Employment Law and CSR Evaluation Report

This report delves into the core aspects of business law and ethics, specifically focusing on the structure of UK employment law and the extent to which corporations prioritize Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The report examines key elements of employment law, including equal pay, minimum wage, unfair dismissal, working hours, and employee contracts, emphasizing the rights and responsibilities of both employers and employees. It analyzes the Employment Rights Act, Equality Act 2010, and other relevant legislation. Furthermore, the report assesses the growing importance of CSR, its impact on brand image, consumer loyalty, and the potential challenges in its implementation, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises. The conclusion summarizes the importance of a balanced approach between employer and employee responsibilities and the significance of corporations taking CSR seriously for societal and business benefits. The report uses references from various journals and books to support the arguments.

Business Law ad Ethics

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Business law consists of all the legislations that regulates the formation of any business
entity or organization so that the overall functions is implemented in a systematic and proper
manner. In addition to this, it also ensures smooth functioning of activities which took place
within the business. Business law also includes the licensing policies that is needed in trading of
products and services within the other cities and countries. It forms the regulations which are
specific for organization to be operated. On the other side, employment law gives certain rights
and obligation to both the employees as well as employers. In context to employer, it owes
certain rights and obligation towards the staff members prevailing in the company and the same
is required from the employee side. It is important for employers to take care of their staff
members whereas employees must needed to work as per the demand of business enterprise so
that working can be implemented smoothly. The report will cover the broad structure of United
Kingdom employment law. In addition to this, this is a discussion about the extent to which
corporate social responsibility is taken seriously.
MAIN BODY
1. Discuss the broad structure of United Kingdom Employment Law & indicate who you think
UK Employment Law favours that is either employers or employees
Employment law includes different aspects such as equal pay, minimum wage to be given to the
staff members, unfair dismissal of the employees, working hours of the employees, contract of
employment, paternity and maternity leave, no discrimination on the basis of religion, race,
caste, mental harassment and so on. It is significant for an organization to follow all the
employment laws and provide all such benefits to its staff members in order to work ethically
and systematically. Along with this, it further protects the rights and responsibilities of
employers as well as employees who are working under them (Nersessian, 2018). The main
objective of formulation of employment law is that it governs the relationship among employees
and employer forced to provide protection to both the employees and employers. It is analyzed
that employment law protects the business units by developing specific guidelines that has to be
involved within the employment contract. Employment law also assist in declining the level of
discrimination that takes place within the business corporation as it encourages equality between
each and every staff member working within the company. Before joining any company, the staff

members are needed to enter within a contract that explains the terms and conditions of working
along with the justification. For instance, notice period time, number of holidays, salary
structure, dismissal process and many more. The employment contract ensured safety in relation
of both employee and employer. If any of the issue arise among they employee and employer,
the respective law help in clarity to settle down conflict. There are many laws which is covered
under the employment law of UK such as employment relationship act 1999 which state that
legal rights of the trade union structure required to get recognition of the staff members in order
to take part in the hearings. It is determined that the employment right act includes all the rights
of staff members for which they are entitled to enforce whenever needed such as redundancy,
unfair dismissal, inequality in context of salary payment, unlawful treatment and so on (Roessing
and El-Jourbagy, 2018). The paternal and maternal regulations include the right of new parents
to take the leave can handle the newborn baby. Equality Act 2010, state that the employers did
not discriminate the staff members on the basis of their race, gender, religion, disability and so
on. The national minimum wage act state about the rights of staff members about to get paid
minimum wage is. It is analyzed that the staff members who is more than the age of 23 are
entitled to be the part of national living wage. Moreover, the part time worker regulations 2000,
state that the part time workers consist of agency workers, freelancer are entitled received the fair
treatment in context of equality which is received by full time staff members. Furthermore, the
Health and Safety Act state that every staff members health and safety is to be considered by the
employers prevailing within the organization.
The main objective of employment law is to bring transparency within the functioning of
overall business corporations. It is analyzed that both the employee and employer required to
maintain the fairness while carrying out business relations and activities. For instance, the staff
members of s required to maintain secrecy of the company by not giving any source of data to
other business unit. On the other side, the same thing is expected from employer as it help to
maintain relationship with employees based on mutual trust. They employment law is solely
develop to regulate the different business relationships and activities which took place in the
country. Moreover, it also ensures the stability within the relationship of employer and
employees. It is determined that such law also gives with specific regulation on which the
corporation is needed to carry out their administrative business functions and operations. This
law also ensured that safety majority is to be provided to all the employees so that they can work

without any issues and fear (Benthall and Goldenfein, 2020). There are various Court established
within the United Kingdom only with the objective to hear disputes associated to employment
matters such as employment appeals tribunal are being formed, employment tribunals for further
appeals and so on. Following of all this employment laws help organisations to maintain good
relations with employees and implement activities systematically and properly.
2. Analyze the extent to which corporations take CSR Seriously.
In the present time, the organizations focus is rapidly increasing on social responsibility
and also for the protection of environment, for decreasing poverty, for rights of women at local
global and national level. one of the key factor for this is social problem that empower to hold
this corporate resource to create something good in order to build the brand image of
organization and be the part of improvement of society. A social responsible organization attracts
large number of shareholders and consumers that has a positive impact on their performance as
well (Cortez, 2018). The organization who is highly associated with social responsibility have
the chance to attract large number of customers and gain their loyalty which in turn develop
opportunity for them to prevail within the market competition.
In order to retain and attract the customers, social responsibility comes in long way and
allow a company to gain long term success. Most of the people know that the organizations
profit or the part of it is given for the social cause and they will give the premium for
improvement in betterment of society. it is analyzed that if this kind of organization support local
community then they can easily witness the increase in foot traffic. It also allow company to
make difference in the world by being attractive customers towards them. In most of the large
organization, this kind of social activities help to achieve substantial results which can be
increase morale and productivity of staff members. The corporate social responsibility makes a
base for organization as well as for the consumer to have positive impact on the community. The
organization who is associated with social responsibility have the opportunity to develop its
value and increase loyalty of customers.
For maintaining corporate social responsibility, the organization state the element of CSR
within the memorandum plan but did not implement it further. One of the reason being that the
medium and small scale enterprise do not have enough funds or the profits to invest within the
CSR. It is analyzed that they have moderate or less profit margin that is also fluctuate year to
year and sometimes it declines (Johnstone and Dobbins, 2021). If it is talking about large

organization, they always delegate activities and the powers to employees because it cannot be
expected by a single individual to manage every activity. They required to appoint different
coordinators for the different departments of the corporation. If the higher authority passes the
funds to invest in CSR, the assigned staff used that money to fill their pockets and requirements
and also use for their personal reasons. It is analyzed that some of the organization initiates the
procedure of CSR at the starting stage of their establishment so that they can acquire high
benefits in context of tax rebate (Cabrelli, 2022). Afterwards, they only show the act of investing
their funds into corporate social responsibility but in real, the picture is different as they do not
perform the same.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it has been concluded that employment law provides all the rules
and regulations that assist in maintaining a good balance among the relationship of staff
members and employee. In addition to this, it renders some obligation on both employee and
employer that are required to be furnished with utmost responsibility. Furthermore, it is
determined that corporate social responsibility has to be taken seriously by organization in order
to improve the brand image and for the betterment of society.

REFERENCES
Books & Journal
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Benthall, S. and Goldenfein, J., 2020. Data Science and the Decline of Liberal Law and
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Cortez, N., 2018. The evolving law and ethics of digital health. In Digital health (pp. 249-269).
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Johnstone, S. and Dobbins, T., 2021. Employment relations in the United
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Cabrelli, D., 2022. Employment Law: a Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press.
Nightingale, M., 2021. Part-time employment and the gender gap in low pay for UK employees:
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