The author of this report will offer a summary of two important laws and regulations when it comes to employment in the United Kingdom. Those two pieces of law will be the Employment Rights Act of 1996, commonly known as ERA 1996, and the Equality Act of 2010, commonly known as the EA 2010. For both laws, the particulars, specifics and common requirements for all parties involved, both employee and employer, will be covered. While the two laws covered in this report were pass nearly a generation apart, both of them hold a very important place in the employment law paradigm in the United Kingdom.
There is an entire section of the ERA dedicated to Sunday work and betting workers in the United Kingdom. Generally speaking, contracts are sometimes unenforceable or are modifiable under the law if they involve Sunday work. On top of that, if someone wishes to not work on Sunday due to religious objections, there are protections in place for people like that. The fifth section of the ERA relates to some life events that an employee may not be punished for if and when they arise. These life events include jury service, certain health and safety cases, working on Sunday (as mentioned above), working time cases, trustees for pension schemes, employee representation and a few others. As was mentioned before, employees have a right to make a complaint to employee tribunals so as to resolve disputes and gain resolution for any mistreatment under the ERA. There are protections for time off that very much dovetail with the above including public duties, looking for work, natal care for children, care for dependents and so forth (United Kingdom 2016).
Another important section of the ERA is the suspension from work section. The law addresses suspensions and acceptable treatment and remedies when it comes to medical suspensions, maternity suspensions and what is allowed to happen in situations involving temporary/agency workers. The eighth part of the ERA covers leaves that an employee may or may not be entitled to including maternity leave, adoption leave, shared parental leave, general parental leave, paternity leave and the like. There is also talk about flexible working arrangements and summaries including the statutory right to request a variation with one's contract, the employer's duties when it comes to the above and the complaint system for employees who feel that they are not being treated properly. The ninth part of the law pertains to termination of employment, which of course would be important for both employee and employers to know well. Details covered for both parties in that ninth section include minimum notice, the rights of employees in general when it comes to notice, how terminations must be handled when it comes to jobs with normal working hours, how they must be handled for jobs when there are not normal working hours, the extension of short-term incapacity benefits and so forth. There is also mention of the requirements when it comes to extending written reasons for dismissing a person and how complaints to employment tribunals can be handled (United Kingdom 2016).
The tenth section of the ERA 1996 is related to the ninth but deserves its own mention. In general, the tenth part is about unfair and unlawful dismissals and how they are handled. In general, employees have a right to not be unfairly dismissed from their employment. Section 95 describes the conditions under which an employee may be fired. There are specific exemptions relating to post-childbirth terminations and the effective date of such terminations. Generally, there are minimum fairness and equity standards that must be enforced. There are also safeguards for people that are within retirement age. Potentially unfair dismissals that are covered in section 98 through 107 of the tenth chapter include jury service, family reasons, fairness of procedures, flexible working arrangements, blacklists and so forth. The second chapter of that tenth section of the law all pertains to remedies for unfair dismissal and it is broken down by the awards, orders for reinstatement and the like. The remainder of the law is mostly housecleaning, interpretations and so forth relating to earlier sections in the law.
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