employee legislation

• • Employee protection legislation aims to prevent the exploitation of workers
• • Pay and working conditions
  • Equality of employment rights for marginalised groups (e.g. those with disabilities) to avoid discrimination
  • The right to belong to a  trade union and take industrial action
  • Contracts and termination of employment
• labour legislation- equality act 2010, EUs equal treatment directive
• national minimum wage
• Health and safety 1974
• Discrimination affects recruitment. Promotion and pay
• Employment Tribunals

  Can Settle Disputes
• If employees feel they've been treated unfairly


  They can make a claim to a tribunal
• At a tribunal

  1. Representatives of the employer and the employee put forward their cases

  2. A tribunal judge (or sometimes a tribunal panel) decides who's in the right
• Employer might have to

  Pay compensation or give the employee their job back in an unfair dismissal