Labour Laws
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- Created on: 31-10-18 10:13
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- Labour Market
- Right to equality in terms of pay
- From European Legislation and Equality act 2010
- Men and women should have equal pay for equal work
- Minimum wage
- From 16 years old (school leavers age)
- Entitled to minimum wage
- Agricultural workers
- Apprentices
- Not entitled to minimum wage
- Self employed
- Armed forces
- Company directors
- Members on a government employment program
- Volunteers
- Employees under school leaving age (16)
- Students on work placement up to one year
- Under 18 £4.20
- in 2019 will be £4.35
- 18 - 20 £5.90
- in 2019 will be £6.15
- 21-24 £7.38
- In 2019 will be £7.70
- over 25 £7.83
- In 2019 will be £8.21
- Business that have minimal effect by wage legislations
- Charity shops - like the British Heart Foundation - mostly have volunteers as they are not entitled to minimum wage
- Businesses affected by minimum wage
- Fast food restaurants like McDonalds as they have many young employees so they may have to change wages often and often pay minimum wage
- National living wage
- Must be 25 or over
- £7.83
- Discrimination laws
- examples of the ground discrimination may be on; gender, sexual orientation, race, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity leave, gender reassignment, nationality, colour, religion or belief or age.
- Direct discrimination - one employee treated less favourably than another based on any of the example grounds.
- Indirect discrimination - an employer imposes a particular requirement or practice on all employees that may unnecessarily disadvantage a certain group (requiring to be clean shaven may disadvantage certain religious groups.)
- Harassment - offensive or intimidating behaviour which aims to humiliate, degrade, undermine the target and violate their dignity
- Victimisation- when someone is treated less favourably than others because they have made a complaint or allegation concerned with discrimination
- 5 main employee rights
- The right to a workplace free of discrimination
- The right to a workplace free of sexual harassment
- The right to reasonable accommodation for disabilities
- The right to compensation for work performed
- The right to protection from employer retaliation
- Trade Unions
- Provide support and advice and campaign for better conditions and pay
- negotiate pay and working conditions
- make sure that the health and safety of workers is protected
- Help enforce a minimum wage
- abolition of child labour
- Competition policy in the UK
- Main aims
- Promote competition; make markets work better and contribute towards improved efficiency in individual markets and enhanced competitiveness of UK businesses within the European Union (EU) single market.
- Antitrust & cartels: elimination of agreements that restrict competition i.e. price-fixing and other abuses by firms who hold a dominant market position (market share more than 40%)
- Market liberalisation: Liberalisation involves introducing competition in previously monopolistic sectors such as energy supply, retail banking, postal services, mobile telecommunications and air transport
- State aid control: Competition policy analyses state aid measures business that need to go on (necessities like royal mail) receive support in a way that is not anti-competitive
- Merger control: control of mergers and take-overs between firms (stops a merger between two large groups which would result in their dominating the market)
- Anti-competitive behaviour
- collusion - firms cooperate for mutual benefit - i.e. influence production levels, price to stop competition
- A complex monopoly exists if at least one quarter (25%) of the market is in the hands of one or a group of suppliers who, deliberately or not, act in a way designed to reduce competitive pressures within a market
- Patent misuse- buys a patent that is fundamental to production of a product (i.e a robot) and then refuses to license it to any competitors in an attempt to take over the entire industry.
- CMA
- Competition and Markets Authority
- Regulatory body for business competition in the UK
- Recently approved BT's merger with EE after 6 months
- Regulatory bodies examples
- Charity Commission- register and regulate charities in England and Wales, to ensure that the public can support charities with confidence.
- The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is the prudential regulator of around 1,500 banks, building societies, credit unions, insurers and major investment firms
- Main aims
- Right to equality in terms of pay
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