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Unit 19 Employment Law Snježana Husinec, PhD shusinec@pravo.hr

Unit 19 Employment Law Snježana Husinec, PhD shusinec@pravo.hr. Employment law. What do you think employment law regulates ? What is its main aim ? What kind of dangers could employees be exposed to in an employment relationship ?

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Unit 19 Employment Law Snježana Husinec, PhD shusinec@pravo.hr

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  1. Unit 19EmploymentLawSnježana Husinec, PhDshusinec@pravo.hr

  2. Employmentlaw • What do youthinkemploymentlawregulates? • Whatisitsmainaim? • Whatkindofdangerscouldemployeesbeexposed to inanemploymentrelationship? • Whatis the differencebetweenEmploymentlaw and Labourlaw?

  3. Employmentlaw EMPLOYMENT LAW regulates the rightsandobligationsbetweenemployersandemployees: • During the recruitment (eg. drawingupemploymentcontracts) • Duringemployment (eg. resolvingdisputes) • At the endofemployment (eg. dismissingemployees) LABOUR LAW dealswithrelationsbetweenemployers and tradeunions. Whatemployeerightsdo youthinkshouldbeguaranteedbylaw?

  4. Formsofemployment • Whatformsofemploymentcanyouthinkof? Full-time employment Part-time employment Casualemployment Fixedtermemployment Temporaryemployment Agency employment Apprenticeship Seasonalemployment

  5. Legal RegulationofEmployment • Read the introductoryparagraph to the textandfind the sourcesofemploymentlawinBritainmentionedinit. • ___________________________________ • ___________________________________ • ___________________________________ • ___________________________________ Whatstatutoryrights are guaranteed to British workers? a) ______________________________ b) _____________________________ c) ______________________________ d) ______________________________ e) ______________________________

  6. AGENCY WORK Who isanagencyworker? • AnAGENCY WORKERholdsa contract with an agency, but workstemporarily for an employer (mayalso be called a temp).Hisworkis controlled by the employer. The agency is responsible for • paying the workers they send to a company (they charge the company a set amount per hour from which they take a percentage) • collecting taxes from the temporary worker’s pay

  7. Employmentcontract Discuss the followingquestionswith a partner: • Whatshouldanemploymentcontractregulate? • Whyis the statutoryprotectionofemployeesnecessary? Whatshoulditinclude? • Who/Whatare the contentsofanemploymentcontractdeterminedby? • Whichconditionsofemploymentshoulditinclude? Checkyouranswersin the sectionof the textentitled ¨Employmentcontract¨.

  8. Employmentparticulars • An employer must give employees a ‘written statement of employment particulars’ if their employment contract lasts at least a month or more. This isn’t an employment contract,but will include the main conditions of employment. • Thedocumentusuallycalled'principal statement' must contain the followinginformation: • employee’sname and the employer's name; -job title or a brief job description • commencementof employment; - remunerationdetails (pay rate and working • holiday entitlement / annualleavehours; when paywillbereceived) • sick leaveandsichpay arrangements; -notice periods • pensions and pension schemes- place ofwork • information about disciplinary and grievance procedures • any collective agreements that affect your employment terms or conditions • for a temporaryemployee how long theemployment is expected to continue, or fora fixed term worker the date whenemployment will end

  9. Endofemployment • Whatdifferentcausesofterminationofemploymentcanyouthinkof? • Checkyouranswersin the sectionof the textentitled ¨Endofemployment¨. • ___________________________ • ___________________________ • ___________________________ • ___________________________ • ___________________________ • ___________________________

  10. Endofemployment • What do youunderstandby the followingterms: • Reduncancy • Summary dismissal • Unfair / wrongfuldismissal • Constructivedismissal • Resignation Do ex. V on p. 191. Consult the text on p.189. Match the above English termswiththeirCroatian equivalents: otkaz; napuštanje radnog mjesta zbog prisile; izvanredni otkaz; protupravno otpuštanje; otpuštanje zbog viška radne snage

  11. Employmentdisputes I Discuss the followingquestionswith a partner? • Whatmightcauseanemploymentdispute? • How canitberesolved? II Read the sectionof the textentitled ¨Employmentdisputes¨ and put the stepsin the employmentdisputeresolutionin the rightorder: 1. An alternative disputeresolutionprocedure (ADR) 2. Anappealheardby the Court ofAppeal 3. Aninformaldiscussioningoodfaith 4. A lawsuitbefore a countycourtoranemployment tribunal 5. Anappealheardby the EnploymentAppeals Tribunal (EAT) 6. A formal procedure for handlinggrievancesanddisciplinary procedure

  12. Alternative DisputeResolution (ADR) = all the waysofresolving a complaintwhich do notinvolvegoing to court ADR = quicker, simpler and costslessthangoing to court = a neutralthird party acts as anintermediarybetween the parties = ADR entity ADR entity = cansuggestorimpose a solution, orsimplybring the twopartiestogether to discuss how to find a solution

  13. Employmentdisputes III Find the answers to the followingquestions. • Whatis the differencebetweeninternalandexternalmethodsofemploymentdisputeresolution? • What are the judicialinstances for the resolutionofemploymentdisputes? • Whatlegalremediesare available? Do ex. IV and VI.

  14. Vocalubarypractice– Find the Croatian equivalents for the following English termsandexpressions. • Comprehensivelabourcodes • The right to equalpay for likework • The right to sickandparentalleave • To provide minimum statutoryprotection • Employmentcontracttermination • Negotiationsbetween the employerand the tradeunion • particularsofemployment • Remuneration • Holidayentitlement • Pensionschemes • Terminationofemployment • Expirationof a fixed-termcontract • To make a redundancypayment • To dismisssummarily • Alternative disputeresolution (ADR) • To bring a claimbeforeanemployment tribunal

  15. Vocabularypractice - Key 1. opširni zakoni o radu 2. pravo na jednaku plaću za jednaki posao 3. pravo na bolovanje i porodiljni dopust 4. osigurati minimalnu zakonsku zaštitu 5. raskid ugovora o radu 6. pregovori između poslodavca i sindikata 7. podaci o zaposlenju 8. naknada za rad 9. pravo na godišnji odmor 10. mirovinski fond 11. raskid / prestanak radnog odnosa 12. istek ugovora na određeno vrijeme 13. dati otpremninu u slučaju otpuštanja zbog viška radne snage 14. dati izvanredni otkaz ugovora o radu 16. alternativno rješavanje spora 15. podići tužbu pred sudom za radne sporove

  16. Discriminationin the Workplace • How wouldyoudefinediscirmination? • Canyougive some examplesofdiscriminatorybehaviourinyourenvironment? • Isitimportant for a country to haveanti-discriminationlaws? DISCRIMINATION = the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, sex, ordisability.

  17. Discriminationin the Workplace • Do youthinkthatunequaltreatmentofemployeescansometimesbejustified? • Whichspecialconditionscanlead to suchtreatment? • Read the textand do ex. II. • Whatisa protectedcharacteristic? • What do the followingtypesofprohibitedconductstand for? • directdiscrimination • indirectdiscrimination • perceptivediscrimination • associativediscrimination • harrasment • victimisation Do ex. III.

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