Impact of Legal and Regulatory Framework on Hospitality Business

This report provides an overview of the legal and regulatory framework within the hospitality industry. It begins by outlining key legislation such as the Minimum Wages Act, the Health & Safety Act, and the Food Safety Act. The report then analyzes the potential impacts of employment and contract law, including prosecution cases related to tax evasion and fraudulent activities, and how they affect the decision-making processes of hospitality businesses. The report concludes by highlighting the importance of adhering to these regulations for the growth and sustainability of hospitality organizations. The analysis includes references to relevant literature and emphasizes the significance of compliance with legal standards in the UK hospitality sector.

HOSPITALITY
BUSINESS TOOLKIT
TASK 3

TABLE OF CONTENT
• Introduction
• Legislation of hospitality industry
• Potential impact of employment and
contract law
• Conclusion
• References

INTRODUCTION
Hospitality industry broad industry which is provided different
products and services. In this industry hotels, restaurants can
follow different laws and regulations. These are shows impact
on Fire & Ice.

Legislation Of Hospitality Industry
Minimum Wages Act 1998 - It is a legal framework for
minimum wages act in the United Kingdom. The framework can
provides detailed provision about their operations and related
regulations. The act also provides the statutory authority for
make regulations and it is sets out basis of statutory for the low
pay commission. The act has applied in Fire & Ice in order to
provide minimum pay wages to every employees. It is beneficial
for the restaurant to retain employee long time in company and it
will also helpful for growth.

Cont...
Health & Safety Act 1974 - The health and safety act is the
primary piece of legislation which is covered occupational health
and safety. The local authorities is responsible for this act in
respect to statutory documents and number of other acts.
Statutory instruments are part of secondary legislation where
adopted subjects, diving, escape and working at height. The act
has applied in Fire & Ice in the reference of provide standard
quality of food to their customers. On the basis of quality most of
the customer are attract and visit in restaurants more time

Cont...
Food Safety Act 1990 - It is an act of the parliament of
the united kingdom. And it will provide a legal
framework for all food legislation in many places such
as England, Scotland and Wales. There are main
responsibilities of this act for all food business is the
businesses can not include anything in food and
remove those things which is not good according to
health & safety.

Cont...

Potential Impact Of Employment
And Contract Law
Prosecution can be defined as action that are taken by the
governments of the nations when companies does not follow
the legislations and regulations that are imposed by legal
authorities. Government of UK has prosecuted different
companies as they haven't followed the legal rules of the
country. This was done under contract, employment and
company law. First one was related to tax fugitives who ran
away and owes more than 53 million pound

Cont...
Five fraudsters who claimed tax refund on 13 million pound are
being arrested by the legal parties and sent behind the bass for
almost 31 years. A company named Cleverly Clogs Limited is
being prosecuted by the organisation under company law
because fraud information is provided by it to the government.
The main reason behind the prosecution is presenting fake
information in front of the government. The legislations leave
impacts upon the decision making process of the organisations
because they have to make modification according to the laws
that are imposed by the government.

Cont...
There are various types of laws that re imposed by
the government such as food safety act,
employment law, equality act etc. all of them may
affect decision making of Fire and Ice because it
is operating its business in UK and for this it is
very important for them to follow all of them so
that business can be executed effectively.

Conclusion
In the presentation has been concluded that the company has
following specific rules & regulation which influence growth
and sustainability of an organisation.

REFERENCES
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A design-thinking approach for developing future hospitality
concepts. Journal of Vacation Marketing. 22(3). pp. 249-264.
Moeti, M. E., 2016. The development of a business social
responsibility (BSR) model to promote the long-term
sustainability of hospitality SMMEs in the Free State
region(Doctoral dissertation, Bloemfontein: Central University
of Technology, Free State).