Employment Responsibilities & Rights
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)
Three different sources of information I could use to enable me to update the staff handbook would be:
The current handbook in place at the company
Up to date health and safety requirements
Any changes that have been made in the law since the last handbook was written
Once you have identified a reliable source of information:
Aii)
a) List three aspects of employment covered by law. (3 marks)
Holiday entitlement
Health and safety conditions of workplace
Employees work rights
b) List three main features of current employment legislation (3 marks)
Contracts and conditions of your employment
The national minimum wage
Time off due to sickness
Aiii) Briefly outline why employment laws exists (3 marks)
To make sure employers provide and oversee a safe and fair working environment, to make sure there are cost benefits to the company, to set out employer responsibilities and duties to the employees.
Task B) Your Work Role
Bi) The terms and conditions of my employment as set out in my contract were that my employment was subject to an enhanced CRB check and 2 satisfactory references from previous jobs. Before starting work for Caremark I completed an online course covering manual handling, medication and health and safety, and I was given a Caremark Handbook and other documents that I had to read, sign and hand back a copy of. bii) The information which must be shown on a payslip are personal details (name & address) and employee number, company information (name, address, phone number) , the tax code, the date of wage payment, the net pay, how many hours were worked, how much is being paid and how much is being deducted for Tax and National Insurance. biii) Two
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)
Three different sources of information I could use to enable me to update the staff handbook would be:
The current handbook in place at the company
Up to date health and safety requirements
Any changes that have been made in the law since the last handbook was written
Once you have identified a reliable source of information:
Aii)
a) List three aspects of employment covered by law. (3 marks)
Holiday entitlement
Health and safety conditions of workplace
Employees work rights
b) List three main features of current employment legislation (3 marks)
Contracts and conditions of your employment
The national minimum wage
Time off due to sickness
Aiii) Briefly outline why employment laws exists (3 marks)
To make sure employers provide and oversee a safe and fair working environment, to make sure there are cost benefits to the company, to set out employer responsibilities and duties to the employees.
Task B) Your Work Role
Bi) The terms and conditions of my employment as set out in my contract were that my employment was subject to an enhanced CRB check and 2 satisfactory references from previous jobs. Before starting work for Caremark I completed an online course covering manual handling, medication and health and safety, and I was given a Caremark Handbook and other documents that I had to read, sign and hand back a copy of. bii) The information which must be shown on a payslip are personal details (name & address) and employee number, company information (name, address, phone number) , the tax code, the date of wage payment, the net pay, how many hours were worked, how much is being paid and how much is being deducted for Tax and National Insurance. biii) Two