This document outlines several key UK employment laws including health and safety regulations that require staff training and risk assessment, equal opportunities legislation prohibiting discrimination based on attributes like age and gender, employment equality acts which ban age discrimination in the workplace, employer's liability insurance to cover work-related injuries or death, employee rights regarding wages, leave and dismissal, and rights for workers to join trade unions.

1. Employment Laws
Kieran McWilliam

2. Health and Safety
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Staff training
Check equipment
Comply with requirements
Use of equipment to assess risks in work
• Tripping over wires on set
• On set risks need to be assessed

3. Equal Opportunities
• Legislates prejudiced-base actions in work
place. E.g. age gender, race, religion and
disability.
• Locked out of the prayer room
• Age restrictions

4. Employment equality (age) regulations
• Employer unreasonably discriminating against
employers on the grounds of age
• Retirements age = 65
• Minimum part-time = 13
• 16-17 = £3.72

5. Employers liability
• Compulsory insurance to protect employers
protects from disease, body injuries and death
by work cause.
• If a light fell and killed someone, they need to
be covered by insurance

6. Employee rights
• All rights allowing fair work place contracts
and conditions
• Wage, holidays, leave = parental sickness,
compensation and dismissal

7. Trade Union
• Everyone is entitled to no master the
company. Organized of workers
• Tube workers feel like they are getting under
payed