UK Employment Law

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Learning outcomes: Understand the purpose of employment regulation and the way it is enforced in practice. Know how to manage recruitment and selection activities lawfully. Know how to manage change and reorganisation lawfully. Know how to manage issues relating to pay and working time lawfully. Be able to ensure that staff are treated lawfully when they are at work. Know how to manage performance and disciplinary matters lawfully. Assessment brief/activity You are required to provide written answers to each of the 5 activities below: 1. You are asked to develop a training session for line managers with the title ‘managing recruitment, selection and appointments lawfully’. Outline the key points of the principles of discrimination law in recruitment, selection and employment that you would include in your presentation, and also include detail on how contracts of employment are established 2. Your organisation is planning a major reorganisation that will involve relocating some people to other sites and outsourcing a major function to a sub-contractor. Summarise when and how contracts can be changed lawfully, the main requirements of redundancy laws, and the main requirements of the law on business transfers. 3.You are asked to summarise for managers the key issues they need to consider to manage pay, leave and working time lawfully. Ensure you include the major statutory rights, equal pay, and maternity, paternity and other family-friendly employment rights. 4. Identify the major requirements of health and safety law and the significance of implied duties as regards the management of employees at work. Then explain the principles of the law on freedom of association. 5. You work for a small organisation which has never had to take formal disciplinary action against an employee before. You suspect a serious case will be arising in the near future. Explain the main requirements of unfair dismissal law in respect of capability and misconduct issues, and the scope of the right for employees to be accompanied at serious discipline and grievance hearings. Evidence to be produced/required Written answers for each of the six activities of approximately 3300 words in total (divided appropriately across the 5 activities). You should relate academic concepts, theories and professional practice to the way organisations operate, in a critical and informed way, and with reference to key texts, articles and other publications and by using organisational examples for illustration. (recommend Acas and CIPD – https://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx? articleid=1461 and