Tuesday, 26 October 2010
As soon as a company reaches the stage where it needs to take on employees to be able to manage its workload, a whole new area of law must be taken into account.
Employment law is designed to protect both the employee and the employer, as it lays down a basic and comprehensive set of rules and regulations that must be followed in all cases. Failure to do this could result in an employee taking action against the company.
As such you must ensure that your company is operating within the boundaries set by the Government, and this can mean making adjustments to the way you would like to run your business.
Minimum wage
One of the most recent pieces of legislation to come into effect has been the introduction of the minimum wage. Employers are required by law to pay at least this amount hourly to every employee – although some unscrupulous companies are denying around 170,000 workers in this country their legal right to a minimum amount for the job they do.
In this case – as with any other piece of employment law – the employer will be heavily fined if they are reported.
Flexible working
One key aspect of employment law that has resulted in many companies rethinking the way they work is the introduction of certain rights for people with children.
As an employer you are not allowed to simply dismiss the idea of a parent working different hours in order to be able to pick their children up from school. The difficulty is that by adjusting one person’s working hours, it may well have an impact on other people’s schedules, and you may need to employ someone else in order to fill that gap.
Seeking help and advice
Employment law is complicated and consists of many different pieces of separate legislation. Every one of these needs to be considered when you employ someone new, let somebody go or change your employees’ job descriptions or working hours.
Most companies have access to a solicitor experienced in employment law, who gets to know your business from the inside out, and can advise on how to proceed in each individual situation.
The vast majority of these solicitors represent employees as well as companies, so they are able to draw on the experience of seeing both sides of disputes and disagreements.
In the end, most companies do not fall foul of the myriad of employment laws that exist. Seeking help before you make any changes to the way you employ people or structure their working day will ensure you don’t slip up before you start.
Employment law is designed to protect both the employee and the employer, as it lays down a basic and comprehensive set of rules and regulations that must be followed in all cases. Failure to do this could result in an employee taking action against the company.
As such you must ensure that your company is operating within the boundaries set by the Government, and this can mean making adjustments to the way you would like to run your business.
Minimum wage
One of the most recent pieces of legislation to come into effect has been the introduction of the minimum wage. Employers are required by law to pay at least this amount hourly to every employee – although some unscrupulous companies are denying around 170,000 workers in this country their legal right to a minimum amount for the job they do.
In this case – as with any other piece of employment law – the employer will be heavily fined if they are reported.
Flexible working
One key aspect of employment law that has resulted in many companies rethinking the way they work is the introduction of certain rights for people with children.
As an employer you are not allowed to simply dismiss the idea of a parent working different hours in order to be able to pick their children up from school. The difficulty is that by adjusting one person’s working hours, it may well have an impact on other people’s schedules, and you may need to employ someone else in order to fill that gap.
Seeking help and advice
Employment law is complicated and consists of many different pieces of separate legislation. Every one of these needs to be considered when you employ someone new, let somebody go or change your employees’ job descriptions or working hours.
Most companies have access to a solicitor experienced in employment law, who gets to know your business from the inside out, and can advise on how to proceed in each individual situation.
The vast majority of these solicitors represent employees as well as companies, so they are able to draw on the experience of seeing both sides of disputes and disagreements.
In the end, most companies do not fall foul of the myriad of employment laws that exist. Seeking help before you make any changes to the way you employ people or structure their working day will ensure you don’t slip up before you start.
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