Employment Law Assignment Sept 2020 PDF

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• Undertake a self-assessment of your practice against selected areas of the CIPD 2018 Profession Map (ie at least one area of core knowledge, one area of specialist knowledge and one core behaviour (all at associate or member level)) OR other (eg organisational...

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CIPD Assessment Activity Template Title of unit/s

Employment Law

Unit No/s

5EML

Level

7 (level 5 UK)

Assessment method

Creation of a 30 minute training programme

Learning outcomes: On completion of this unit, learners will: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Understand the purpose of employment regulation and the way it is enforced in practice. Know how to manage recruitment and selection activities lawfully. Know how to manage change and reorganisation lawfully. Know how to manage issues relating to pay and working time lawfully. Be able to ensure that staff are treated lawfully when they are at work. Know how to manage performance and disciplinary matters lawfully.

Assessment brief

Assessment Criteria

You are the HR Adviser in an organisation and has been asked to put together a 30 minute training session for a group of newly recruited line managers with little experience. In teams of 4 you will prepare a 30 minute group presentation with supporting notes with a Q&A session at the end. Each student must participate in the Q&A session and can be asked questions on any aspect of the relevant law. The presentation you are giving is part of their induction process, and the brief is to give an overview of the legal issues that they must understand when managing people. Specifically, you must cover: 1. The aims and objectives of employment law. Briefly describe the role played by labour court and related bodies in implementing employment law. Include how cases can be resolved using mediation. Explain Trade Union rights and freedom of association. 2. The Equality Acts and the importance of ensuring that the recruitment and selection process of new employees is fair. In addressing this point you must outline the key issues relating to direct and indirect discrimination, giving examples from recruitment and general work conditions 3. In addition, explain how a contract of employment for a new employee should be created. The difference between contracts of employment and contracts for services should be clear, with an explanation of the tests that could be used to distinguish between them. Explain how a to go about varying a contract of employment. 4. Organisations change and develop. In addressing this area you must highlight the processes to be followed when managing redundancies and addressing a transfer of undertaking.

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.3

2.1

2.2, 3.1,

3.2, 3.3

5. The key rights that employees have during employment. Here you 1 Version: September 2020

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must cover working time, pay (including equal pay), leave and family friendly rights including maternity leave, parental leave etc. Highlight the areas that you think are most important for line managers to know about.

4.1, 4.2, 4.3

6. The protection that the law gives to employees. Here your employer has asked you to specifically address health and safety, the implied duties of the contract of employment. 5.1, 5.2, 7. How the law requires disciplinary situations relating to capability and conduct to be addressed. You must explain the procedures that line managers have to follow. You must explain the right of employees to be accompanied during formal disciplinary or grievance hearings.

6.1, 6.2

Evidence to be produced Slides that you will use in your presentation Comprehensive notes that you will use during your presentation

Your lecturer will publish the submission date in class / on Moodle as appropriate. Late assignments are penalised as per the programme handbook. This Assignment is worth 50% of the mark for this module. You will also complete a skills exam. You must undertake academic research to support your analysis. Please ensure you reference accurately and avoid plagarism. Guidance on this is available at https://www.ncirl.ie/Library/Library-Help-Centre/How-To-Reference Please submit 1 soft copy of the assignment via Moodle (turnitin function). Note – if you have multiple files, you need to merge them into one document (Word or similar) before uploading.

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Employment Law Feedback sheet Student:

Attempt 1:

Pass / Refer

Lecturer:

Attempt 2:

Pass / Fail

Criteria

L.O.

The aims and objectives of employment law. Briefly describe the role played by labour court and related bodies in implementing employment law. Include how cases can be resolved using mediation. Explain Trade Union rights and freedom of association.

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.3

The Equality Acts and the importance of ensuring that the recruitment and selection process of new employees is fair. In addressing this point you must outline the key issues relating to direct and indirect discrimination, giving examples from recruitment and general work conditions In addition, explain how a contract of employment for a new employee should be created. The difference between contracts of employment and contracts for services should be clear, with an explanation of the tests that could be used to distinguish between them. Explain how a to go about varying a contract of employment. Organisations change and develop. In addressing this area you must highlight the processes to be followed when managing redundancies and addressing a transfer of undertaking. The key rights that employees have during employment. Here you must cover working time, pay (including equal pay), leave and family friendly rights including maternity leave, parental leave etc. Highlight the areas that you think are most important for line managers to know about. The protection that the law gives to employees. Here your employer has asked you to specifically address health and safety, the implied duties of the contract of employment.

2.1

How the law requires disciplinary situations relating to capability and conduct to be addressed. You must explain the procedures that line managers have to follow. You must explain the right of employees to be accompanied during formal disciplinary or grievance hearings.

6.1, 6.2

Pass/ Refer

Pass/ Fail

2.2, 3.1,

3.2, 3.3 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 5.1, 5.2,

General Feedback: ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Suggestions for Improvement __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Lecturer: __________________________

Date: __________________

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