This document provides guidance for an assignment on recent legal changes affecting employment in the UK. It outlines the pass, merit, and distinction criteria and explains what is required to meet each level. For a pass, students must explain how two recent legal changes impact permanent and agency employment contracts. For a merit, students should analyze the effects of the changes on a selected business. For a distinction, students must evaluate how the selected business has responded to ensure compliance with the new regulations. The document gives advice on how to structure the assignment response.

1. Terms and Conditions: Task 2
Adam Finkel-Gates
Brooksby Melton College

2. Recent legal changes
2013
• Pension automatic
enrolment
• RTI (PAYE)
• National Minimum Wage
• Employee Shareholder
Status
• Employment Tribunals
• Redundancy Changes
2012
• Unfair dismissal, qualifying
period

3. Assignment Support
Pass [P2]
Merit [M1]
Distinction[D1]
• Evaluate the extent to
• Explain the
• Analyse the
which a selected
impact of
impact of
business organisation
relevant
relevant
has adapted its
legislation/regul legislation/regul
working
ations on any
ations on any
arrangements to
accommodate
two types of
two types of
legislation relating to
employment
employment
rights and
contract
contract
responsibilities of
employees and
employers.

4. Assignment Support [P2]
1. Take four of the changes we covered today
2. Explain what the change is
3. Apply this to:
 Permanent contracts
 Agency contracts
 Tip: The changes may have the same
impact, so develop [2.] above more rather
than doing an individual account of [3.]

5. Assignment Support [M1]
• Analyse: looking at the ‘effects’.
• The easiest way to bring this into your
assignment is to develop the P, either after [2.]
or individually as part of [3.]
• So the question you need to answer is:
This change will impact on the company in
which way?
Financially, Cover, Flexibility, increased Red
tape?

6. Assignment Support [D1]
• Evaluate the employer response
• IE. What must ‘A’ company do to ensure
compliance?
• For your assignment you MUST use the same
example company throughout (although all
companies will need to respond in the same
way).

7. Assignment Support
• Explain the change
• Explain how the company will be effected
– Effect on permanent contracts
– Effect on agency contracts
• Provide example‘S’ of what the company can
do to ensure compliance
• Bish bash bosh...