Employment low/ CIPD level 5

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CIPD Assessment Activity

Title of unit/s Employment Law

Unit No/s 5EML

Level 5

Credit value 6

Assessment method Information booklet

Expiry Date September 2018

Learning outcomes: On completion of this unit, learners will:

1 Understand the purpose of employment regulation and the way it is enforced in practice.

2 Know how to manage recruitment and selection activities lawfully.

3 Know how to manage change and reorganisation lawfully.

4 Know how to manage issues relating to pay and working time lawfully.

5 Be able to ensure that staff are treated lawfully when they are at work.

6 Know how to manage performance and disciplinary matters lawfully.

Assessment brief

You have been approached by the Citizens Advice Bureau and asked to put together an information booklet on the aspects of law contained in the stated learning outcomes.

You have been asked to submit your information on the given date and are required to present your information on a word document using the specified items below as headings:

Note: The numbered headings below are the assessment criteria.

Legal System

1. Explain the aims and objectives of employment regulation.

2. Describe the role played by the tribunal and courts system in enforcing

employment law.

3. Explain how cases can be settled before or during formal legal procedures.

Avoiding Discrimination

4. Identify the main principles of discrimination law during recruitment, selection and employment.

Assessment Criteria

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Contract Law

5. Explain how contracts of employment are established.

6. Describe when and how contracts can be changed lawfully.

Organisational Change

7. Explain the main requirements of redundancy law.

8. Explain the main requirements of the law on business transfers.

Worker’s Rights

9. Identify the major statutory rights workers have in the fields of pay, leave and working time.

10. Explain the major requirements of equal pay law.

11. Explain major maternity, paternity and other family-friendly employment rights.

12. Identify the major requirements of health and safety law.

13. Explain the significance of implied duties as regards the management of employees at work.

14. Explain the principles of the law on freedom of association.

Dismissal

15. Explain the main requirements of unfair dismissal law in respect of capability and misconduct issues.

16. Explain the scope of the right for employees to be accompanied at serious discipline and grievance hearings.

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Evidence to be produced You are required to produce:

A word document responding to the above questions of 4500 words (+/-

10%)

You should relate academic concepts, theories and professional practice to the way organisations operate, in a critical and informed way, and with reference to key texts, articles and other publications and by using organisational examples for illustration.

When referring to the law indicate the relevant legislation and cite any case law on key legal issues.

All reference sources should be acknowledged correctly and a bibliography

provided where appropriate (these should be excluded from the word count).