2. Employment Legislation
Employment Legislation is the laws that protect
employers and employees from unsafe,
unhealthy, working conditions.
These include issues such as-
Employer rights, employer liability, equal
opportunities, and health and safety.
3. Health and Safety
Health and safety is massively important in the
media industry.
In a studio, factory or on a set, there will often be
lights, water, animals, actors, pyrotechnics, hot
irons, industrial printers, cutting machines, crew,
and cranes. There are lots of potential hazards.
It is important that employers abide by health
and safety acts to keep themselves and their
employees safe.
4. Equal Opportunities
Equal opportunities are in place so that everyone
has fair and equal rights.
This applies to gender, race, sexuality, age,
religion and others.
Its so people have a fair chance at jobs and
same pay as others.
There should be no discrimination for any reason.
5. Employer’s Liability
Employers and companies need to have
insurance so that they can cover any cost of any
lawsuits or compensation if any of their
employees are harmed or sustain an injury.
Employers’ liability insurance will enable you to
meet the cost of compensation for your
employees’ injuries or illness whether they are
caused on or off site. However, any injuries and
illness relating to motor accidents that occur
while your employees are working for you may
be covered separately by your motor insurance.
6. Employee Rights
Everyone has legal rights in their workplace
These include paid annual leave, paid maternity/
paternity/ adoption leave, and a maximum of a
48 hour working week.
Nearly all workers, regardless of the number of
hours per week they work, have certain legal
rights. There are some workers who are not
entitled to certain statutory rights
7. Intellectual Property
Intellectual property is the creations of the mind.
The Intellectual Property Office can help you get
the right type of protection for your creation or
invention.
8. Copyright
Copyright protects people’s work from being
stolen.
Copyright can protect literary, dramatic, musical,
artistic works, recordings and broadcasts of work.
Copyright does not protect ideas, it only protects
the works when it is in a fixed form- written down
for instance.
9. Trademarks
Trademarks are brands that inform their
customers that the goods and services have
come from that brand.
To protect a brand you should register it as a
trademark.
You can register your brand as a trademark on
the intellectual property office website.
10. Confidentiality
In the media industry confidentiality is quite
important.
People working on films often have to sign a
confidentiality agreement to say they will not
discuss any aspects of the film they are working
on.
Film producers do this to keep the films secret
and keep an element of suspense and surprise
for audiences
Films often use code names when they are being
produced.
11. Exclusivity
In the media industry it is important to get
exclusivity of stories and contributors.
People have to sign agreements to say that they
will only work with those companies for a specific
amount of time.
For example a contributor may have to sign to
say they will not give their story to any other T.V
company for a certain time after it has been
shown.
12. Laws & Legislation
Employment legislation refers to the laws which
protect both employers and their workers from
unhealthy, unsafe working conditions or
situations.
There are many issues such as employer liability,
employee’s rights, health and safety, equal
opportunities.
Equal opportunities includes race, gender, age.
13. Codes of practice
Codes of practice are in place to set out how
people in the company should act.
Codes of practice are not legally binding but
they are in place to stop unethical actions.
An example of codes of practice can be found
on the BBC’s website-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv/how-
we-work/business-requirements/code-of-
practice.shtml
