Understand The Purpose Of Employment Regulation And The Way It Is Enforced In Practice: Employment Law Assignment, UCD, Ireland

Learning outcomes:

• 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 reorganization lawfully.
• Know how to manage issues relating to pay and working time lawfully.
• Be able to ensure that staff is treated lawfully when they are at work.
• Know how to manage performance and disciplinary matters lawfully.

Assignment Brief:

1. Explain the purpose of employment law and how it is enforced. Briefly describe the role played by the tribunal and courts system in enforcing employment law. Include how cases are settled before and during formal legal procedures.

2. You are asked to develop a training session for line managers with the title ‘managing recruitment, selection, and appointments lawfully’. Outline the key points of the principles of discrimination law in recruitment, selection, and employment that you would include in your presentation. Include detail on how employment contracts are established

3. Your organization is planning a major reorganization that will involve relocating some people to other sites and outsourcing a major function to a sub-contractor. Summarise when and how contracts can be changed lawfully, the main requirements of redundancy laws, and the law’s main requirements on business transfers.

4. You are asked to summarise for managers the key issues they need to consider to manage pay, leave, and working time lawfully. Ensure you include the major statutory rights, equal pay, and maternity, paternity, and other family-friendly employment rights.

5. Identify the major requirements of health and safety law and the significance of implied duties as regards the management of employees at work. Then explain the principles of the law on freedom of association.

6. You work for a small organization that has never taken formal disciplinary action against an employee before. You suspect a serious case will be arising shortly. Explain the main requirements of unfair dismissal law in respect of capability and misconduct issues, and the scope of the right for employees to be accompanied at serious discipline and grievance hearings.