This document outlines several key employment laws in the UK. It discusses laws around health and safety that require safe equipment and assessing workplace risks. It also covers equal opportunity laws that prohibit discrimination based on attributes like race, age and gender. Additionally, it mentions employment equality regulations regarding age discrimination and minimum wages. The document also defines employers liability insurance that covers employees injured at work, as well as employee rights to fair contracts and benefits. Finally, it describes trade unions as organizations that allow workers to collectively bargain for better pay and working conditions.

1. Employment Laws

2. Health & Safety
Definition:
Example:
Complying with
requirements for safe
training and using
equipment for training
and using equipment
and to assess and
control risks in the work
place.
In the Media orientated
work place examples of
health and safety
hazards are trip hazards,
tripping over wires or
lighting and filming
equipment.

3. Equal Opportunities
Definition:
Example:
Legislates prejudice
actions in the work
place, things like race,
age, gender and
disabilities are included.
Racial discrimination,
recently Tesco had an
incident with racial
discrimination and the
blocking of access of the
Prayer Room for Muslim
employees.

4. Employment Equality (Age)
Regulations
Definition:
Example:
Prohibits employers from
unreasonably
discriminating against
employees in terms of
their age.
Rules like retirement age
being at 65, and
minimum part time work
age is 13. And at the age
of 16-17 the minimum
pay per hour is £3.72

5. Employers Liability
Definition:
Example:
Compulsory insurance
that protects employees
if an employer is hurt at
work. If an employee is
injured, the insurance
would cover the victim
fully.
In a work place if a
employee contracts an
illness, the insurance
company will cover the
victim. The employer
must first be covered by
an insurance company.

6. Employee Rights
Definition:
Example:
All rights for the
employee, allowing for
fair work place contracts
and permissions.
The employee has the
right to know what their
wage is, how much
holiday time they have
during they are entitled
to.

7. Trade Union
Definition:
Example:
Organized association of
workers who have
banded together to
achieve higher pay,
increase the number of
employees the employer
hires and push for better
working conditions
around general
businesses
To achieve things like
higher pay, the
employees can do things
like strike, for example,
the Tube Workers of
London Underground
went on strike recently.