University Of Uxbridge Case Study

PART A: Dabir
Employers have the responsibility of ensuring that the working conditions of employees are favorable for them to carry out their duties. Moreover, the employers should motivate the employees if at all they want the productivity of the organizations to be boosted. This is in accordance with the employment Act (Adams, 2014). In connection to this, the University of Uxbridge has the responsibility of ensuring that Mr. Dabir does not suffer as an employee but has favorable working environment. The issue of parking space being charged is not fully convincing as it extorts cash from the employees who are really contributing to the development of the institution. In addition, there should be equality in terms of giving all the employees
The employer has to ensure that the employees are well trained and that they have good working conditions. Any losses to the employees at the place of work should be compensated. The university has also breached the duty to care for the employees who are very important in its efforts to discharge its mandate. The remedy to the breach of duty is compensation and so the university needs to compensate Dabir for the loss of the vehicle and other expenses (Adams, 2014). This gives Dabir the right to sue the university if it is not willing to compensate him. However, as per the contract accepted by Dabir, it is stated that the university will not be responsible for the losses of property and injuries suffered during the performance of duties by the employees. The university can bank on this so as not to compensate Dabir. The university can also say that the losses are as a result of contributory negligence by Dabir as he knows very well that vehicles are parked at owners risk but goes ahead to report the case aiming to find it with the help of the security personnel. This therefore makes the university to share the losses with him as per the tort of contributory negligence. However, the policies of the university should be changed so that bit takes care of the property of the employees. More security personnel should be employed to take care of property of the employees and they
The 10% discount offered by the campus library is encouraging especially to the new students on the first week. Edwina goes ahead to purchase one of the recommended textbooks in the name of ‘Business law ‘fifth edition, which is the latest and most updated according to the library assistant. However, she discovers that it is not the most updated book when she goes to the first lecture and is very annoyed. She realizes the latest edition was published in the year 2014 and not the one she bought that was produced in the year 2012. Her problems are further compounded when she breaks her right arm twice when the lecturer unintentionally switches off the lights. This prompts her to purchase Dictaphone by spending £69.99 to take notes because she cannot write. In her second class, Mr. Fillipo the lecture notices that she is recording the lecture and publicly embarrasses her in front of her fellow students because she had not sought for his permission to record the notes. This made her to report Mr. Fillipo to the principal who suspends him for two weeks and later on dismisses him on accounts of inability to serve at the university because of his incompetency. Her argument is that it is the lecturer who was responsible for her inability to write notes yet he is the one who ended up embarrassing