Employment Law

All employees fundamental employment rights at function will depend on their statutory rights and the rights set out in their employment contract. Though, your employment contract can’t take away your rights by law. Nonetheless, if your contract gives you greater rights than you have under the law, then the terms in your contract will apply, there are unique rules that are applicable for employment of children and young folks under the age of 18.

The workers statutory rights are legal rights based on laws passed by Parliament. All workers have particular legal statutory rights, regardless of the number of hours they work per week. Even so there are some workers that are not entitled to particular statutory rights. Employees only gain rights when they have been employed with their employer or employer’s firm for a certain period of time. Unless the employee is in the group of workers who are excluded from entitlement of statutory rights, you will have the proper to a written statement of terms of employment within two months of function commencing the appropriate to a wage slip that applies from the date the employee starts working appropriate to be paid a the quite least, minimum wage and applies from the date the employee starts working the right not to have illegal deductions of pay the entitlement to paid holiday, you are entitled to at least 28 days holiday a year and part-time workers are entitled to a pro rata quantity the proper to time off for trade union duties and jobs which does not necessarily have to be paid. Workers do have the proper to be accompanied by a trade union representative to a disciplinary or grievance hearing, and if they take part in any official industrial action and is for that reason dismissed as a result, this will be classed instantly as an automatically unfair dismissal.

Employee’s have a statutory proper to be paid for time off to look for work if having been made redundant, but this only applies once the employee has worked for at least two years for that specific employer they will be entitled to time off for study or training if 16-17 years of age the correct to be paid time off for ante natal care correct to paid maternity and paternity leave proper to ask for flexible working hours to care for children or adult dependants appropriate to paid adoption leave correct to ask for flexible working hours the appropriate to take unpaid parental leave if you have worked for the employer for far more than 1 year of continuous employment and the proper to reasonable time off to look after dependants in an emergency.