3. To be able to:
◦ Understand the reasons behind employment legislations.
◦ Identify the types of laws : unfair dismissal , disability , racial
/sexual or age discrimination
◦ Discuss their effect on businesses.
◦ Apply to Past paper case.
4. Employment Contract
◦ Is an agreement between people or organization to
deliver goods or services , or to do something on jointly
agreed terms.
5. Contract of Employment
◦ The name of both employee and employer.
◦ The title of the job
◦ The agreed on salary
◦ The hours of work
◦ When payment would be paid
◦ Holiday entitlement and holiday pay
◦ Sick pay
◦ The conditions of termination (length of notice that the employer must give)
6. What are employment legislations?
◦They are set of law to prevent or allow the business to do
certain acts regarding employees
◦ It shapes the relationship between the employer and the
employee.
◦To protect the employees for being removed from their job
unfairly.
7. Why ?
◦To protect the employees in the workplace.
◦To make sure the are treated fairly.
8. Discrimination
◦To treat one person or group less favorably than others
and dismiss employees based on:
◦Race
◦Religion
◦Sex
◦Age
◦Disability
9. Fair Unfair
Deliberately destroy
company property.
Harassing another worker ,
verbally or physically
Continually being late
Unable or unwilling to do
the job
Continually taking time off
Against based on their race
/religion.
Have joined a trade union.
They are women/ or too
old.
10. What’s the difference between dismissal
and redundancy ?
◦ Dismissal is when the employees are removed from the job
because of some misconduct (misbehavior )
◦Redundancy is when the job no longer exists, so the employee is
no longer needed.
13. To be able to:
◦ Understand the reasons behind employment legislations.
◦ Identify the types of laws : unfair dismissal , racial /sexual or
age discrimination.
◦ Discuss their effect on businesses.
◦ Apply to Past paper case.
Notas del editor
There is not much details (if any) on the specifications on this book. No need to worry, you just need to understand the reasons behind those legislations and how they affect businesses.
First question them when is it FAIR to kick employees out.
Harassing another worker , verbally or physically
(Mention my father’s case with the man.)
Unable or unwilling to do the job (governmental jobs in Kuwait in one day – 10 mins of productivity.