Understand Employment Responsibilities
201 Understand employment responsibilities and rights in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings
Task A – Short Answer Questions
Ai: Imagine you are a newly appointed supervisor/manager within your service. You need to update your staff handbook to reflect current employment law. Identify three different sources of information you could use to enable you to do this.
Once you have identified a reliable source of information:
Aii
a) List three aspects of employment covered by law. Work Conditions (safety, discrimination, accommodation, etc.) Wages Hours
b) List three main features of current employment legislation. Minimum wage Training Holiday entitlements
Aiii Briefly outline why employment law exists. To protect the employee and the employer Nobody is discriminated racism is not in the work place No abuse, providing a safe work environment employee fairness people don’t work below minimum wage nobody is taken advantage of nobody is tricked into unfavourable contracts.
Task B Your work role
For this task you will need the following:
• A copy of your contract of employment or employment agreement. If you don’t have a written contract of employment eg if you are employed as a personal assistant, discuss your terms and conditions with your employer and make notes to help you to complete the task; Evidence 1
• A recent payslip or pay statement; Evidence 2
• Access to your workplace policies and procedures or notes from a discussion with your employer if you are employed as a personal assistant
Bi Describe the terms and conditions of your employment as set out in your contract of employment or employment agreement.
Bii Describe the information which needs to be shown on your pay slip/statement. Salary before and after deductions Name national insurance number national insurance contribution tax contribution
Task A – Short Answer Questions
Ai: Imagine you are a newly appointed supervisor/manager within your service. You need to update your staff handbook to reflect current employment law. Identify three different sources of information you could use to enable you to do this.
Once you have identified a reliable source of information:
Aii
a) List three aspects of employment covered by law. Work Conditions (safety, discrimination, accommodation, etc.) Wages Hours
b) List three main features of current employment legislation. Minimum wage Training Holiday entitlements
Aiii Briefly outline why employment law exists. To protect the employee and the employer Nobody is discriminated racism is not in the work place No abuse, providing a safe work environment employee fairness people don’t work below minimum wage nobody is taken advantage of nobody is tricked into unfavourable contracts.
Task B Your work role
For this task you will need the following:
• A copy of your contract of employment or employment agreement. If you don’t have a written contract of employment eg if you are employed as a personal assistant, discuss your terms and conditions with your employer and make notes to help you to complete the task; Evidence 1
• A recent payslip or pay statement; Evidence 2
• Access to your workplace policies and procedures or notes from a discussion with your employer if you are employed as a personal assistant
Bi Describe the terms and conditions of your employment as set out in your contract of employment or employment agreement.
Bii Describe the information which needs to be shown on your pay slip/statement. Salary before and after deductions Name national insurance number national insurance contribution tax contribution