Employment Legislation
Unit 27 – Employment Legislation
Assignment 2
1. Terms of Reference:
This assignment asks to describe the impact of data protection legislation regulations on a specific business. The report will look at how the specific business will be affected by both employment and data protection legislation.
2. Procedures:
In order to carry out this assignment research will have to be collected this will come from a number of sources including the following: • Reference books • Internet
3.0 Findings:
When looking at the laws that relate to the relationship between an employer and employee its clear to see that they have changed dramatically over the past few years, and there is now a difficult framework provided by UK law and influenced by European law. Employees now have more rights than ever before and therefore employers have more duties forced on them.
3.1 Differences between employees and independent contractors:
In employment law there are two main types of workers: • Employees- who are part of a business and have a contract of service • Self employed workers- who are independent contractors working for a business under a contract of service.
Although both do technically work for a business when it comes to their contracts they have distinctly different rights.
| |Employee |Independent Contractor |
|Contractual status |Contract of service |Contract for service |
|Insurance and welfare |Entitled to unemployment benefit, statutory sick pay, industrial |Very little welfare benefit and |
|benefits |injury benefit and state pension, provided the employee has |statutory sick pay |
| |contributed to these state schemes via National Insurance | |
|
Assignment 2
1. Terms of Reference:
This assignment asks to describe the impact of data protection legislation regulations on a specific business. The report will look at how the specific business will be affected by both employment and data protection legislation.
2. Procedures:
In order to carry out this assignment research will have to be collected this will come from a number of sources including the following: • Reference books • Internet
3.0 Findings:
When looking at the laws that relate to the relationship between an employer and employee its clear to see that they have changed dramatically over the past few years, and there is now a difficult framework provided by UK law and influenced by European law. Employees now have more rights than ever before and therefore employers have more duties forced on them.
3.1 Differences between employees and independent contractors:
In employment law there are two main types of workers: • Employees- who are part of a business and have a contract of service • Self employed workers- who are independent contractors working for a business under a contract of service.
Although both do technically work for a business when it comes to their contracts they have distinctly different rights.
| |Employee |Independent Contractor |
|Contractual status |Contract of service |Contract for service |
|Insurance and welfare |Entitled to unemployment benefit, statutory sick pay, industrial |Very little welfare benefit and |
|benefits |injury benefit and state pension, provided the employee has |statutory sick pay |
| |contributed to these state schemes via National Insurance | |
|