Employment Rights and Responsibilities
Understand employment responsibilities and rights in health, social care or children and young people's settings.
1.1. The main aspects of employment covered by law include: • Minimum wage • Hours worked • Discrimination • Health and safety • Holiday entitlements • Redundancy and dismissal • Training • Disciplinary procedures • Sick pay • Human rights
1.2. • National minimum wage: All workers over the compulsory school leaving age (16 years old) must be paid the National minimum wage. There are different rates of pay for workers dependant on age (aged 21 and over), (18-20) (16-17).
• Working time regulations: The Working time regulations 1998, implement the European working time directive in the UK and came into force on Oct1, 1998. The legislation imposes a statutory right to a maximum working week of 48 hours for many workers averaged out over 17 weeks. The regulations limit the hours of night workers and make certain health checks compulsory. Rest periods and breaks at work are also regulated. The regulations also gave all workers the right to a minimum amount of paid annual leave, which is currently 5.6 weeks-capped at 28 days a year.
• Discrimination: It is unlawful to discriminate against anyone at work because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or membership (or non-membership) of a trade union.
• Health and Safety: The common law has established that an employer has a general duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury, disease or death occurring to their employees at work. In particular employers must:- • provide a safe place of work with safe means of access and egress • provide and maintain safe appliances and equipment and plant for doing the work
1.1. The main aspects of employment covered by law include: • Minimum wage • Hours worked • Discrimination • Health and safety • Holiday entitlements • Redundancy and dismissal • Training • Disciplinary procedures • Sick pay • Human rights
1.2. • National minimum wage: All workers over the compulsory school leaving age (16 years old) must be paid the National minimum wage. There are different rates of pay for workers dependant on age (aged 21 and over), (18-20) (16-17).
• Working time regulations: The Working time regulations 1998, implement the European working time directive in the UK and came into force on Oct1, 1998. The legislation imposes a statutory right to a maximum working week of 48 hours for many workers averaged out over 17 weeks. The regulations limit the hours of night workers and make certain health checks compulsory. Rest periods and breaks at work are also regulated. The regulations also gave all workers the right to a minimum amount of paid annual leave, which is currently 5.6 weeks-capped at 28 days a year.
• Discrimination: It is unlawful to discriminate against anyone at work because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or membership (or non-membership) of a trade union.
• Health and Safety: The common law has established that an employer has a general duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury, disease or death occurring to their employees at work. In particular employers must:- • provide a safe place of work with safe means of access and egress • provide and maintain safe appliances and equipment and plant for doing the work