Understand Employment Rights and Responsibilites
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. (3 marks) * The Government website www.gov.uk is one source of information that could be used. It has information on many things including benefits, working, jobs and pensions. This website has an entire section dedicated to “employing people” and gives information about statutory rights for employees regarding all aspects of employment including: contracts of employment, health and safety at work, pay, statutory leave, time off, sick pay and so on. * Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) is another source of information. The CAB is a charity that offers confidential and free advice to help people with debt/finance problems, immigration issues, consumer problems and many other things. This includes advice on employer/employee rights and responsibilities. The people who work at the CAB are all trained in the field they advise on. * You could also talk to a lawyer, who specialises in employment and ask them for guidance of what information should be included in a staff handbook as well as referring to the previous staff handbook.
Aii) a. List three aspects of employment covered by law. (3 marks) * Working hours of an employee: the law states a maximum amount of hours that an employee can be expected to work in a week, this is dependent on age and type of job, and some jobs are not expected to follow this rule, e.g. armed forces. * Working conditions: these include health and safety within the work place and discrimination. * Dismissal: there are rules and guidelines employers must follow when wanting to dismiss an employee. Again these can vary depending
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. (3 marks) * The Government website www.gov.uk is one source of information that could be used. It has information on many things including benefits, working, jobs and pensions. This website has an entire section dedicated to “employing people” and gives information about statutory rights for employees regarding all aspects of employment including: contracts of employment, health and safety at work, pay, statutory leave, time off, sick pay and so on. * Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) is another source of information. The CAB is a charity that offers confidential and free advice to help people with debt/finance problems, immigration issues, consumer problems and many other things. This includes advice on employer/employee rights and responsibilities. The people who work at the CAB are all trained in the field they advise on. * You could also talk to a lawyer, who specialises in employment and ask them for guidance of what information should be included in a staff handbook as well as referring to the previous staff handbook.
Aii) a. List three aspects of employment covered by law. (3 marks) * Working hours of an employee: the law states a maximum amount of hours that an employee can be expected to work in a week, this is dependent on age and type of job, and some jobs are not expected to follow this rule, e.g. armed forces. * Working conditions: these include health and safety within the work place and discrimination. * Dismissal: there are rules and guidelines employers must follow when wanting to dismiss an employee. Again these can vary depending