Understand employment responsibilities and rights in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings.

Understand employment responsibilities and rights in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings.

ERR Booklet

Task A

Ai:
Imagine you area 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.

1. Direct Gov website https://www.gov.uk/browse/employing-people
2. ACAS https:/www.acas.org.uk
3. Health and Safety Executive http://www.hse.gov.uk/

Aii:
a) List three aspects of employment covered by law.
1. Work Conditions (safety, discrimination, accommodation, etc.)
2. Wages
3. Hours

b) List three main features of current employment legislation.
1. Minimum wage
2. Training
3. Holiday entitlements

Aiii:
Briefly outline why employment law exists.
• To protect the employee and the employer
• Avoid discrimination
• Avoid racism
• To provide a safe work environment
• Keep employee fairness

Task B – Your Work Role

Bi Describe the terms and conditions of your employment as set out in your contract of employment or employment agreement.

These most commonly fall into 4 main sections: A: Job description - defining the role, responsibility level (e.g. Manager, Deputy Manager, Assistant etc). It might include limits on decision making/to whom one reports/is supervised by.
B: Entitlement - rate of pay, holiday entitlement, retirement and ill-health benefits, bonus/overtime rates, uniform and/expenses allowances, canteen facilities, etc.
C: Responsibilities: working hours, dress code, reporting illness/absence, annual assessments, complaints procedures, notice periods for leaving/dismissal, requirements to change working hours.
D: General: Depending on the type of job, there might be other conditions restricting the employee taking other part-time work, confidentiality clauses, using company equipment for private use (e.g. phones, computers, vehicles) general codes of behaviour and adherence to certain corporate practices, health & safety regulations, etc.
The actual format of the contract will vary from company to company. Some will cover more general matters in a Staff Handbook which the employee is required to read and confirm he/she has done so.

Bii Describe the information which needs to be shown on your pay slip/statement.

• Company name
• Employee's name
• Tax code
• Date
• Payment period
• Payment method
• Employee number
• Pay

Biii Identify two changes to personal information which you must report to your employer.
• Change of Name
• Change of Address.
• Change of next of kin