NVQ2 Business and admin assessment 1. Know the employment rights and responsibilities of the employee and employer

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Business and Administration

Unit one: Principles of personal responsibilities and working in a business environment

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Name: Deanna Meadows-Taylor


Section 1 – Know the employment rights and responsibilities of the employee and employer

1. Identify four main points that would be included in a contract of employment.  If possible, use an example contract to support your answer (feel free to obscure any confidential information).

Place of work

Employees Name

Job Title

Start Date

2a) List three key points of legislation that affect employers in a business environment.

Data Protection

Health and Safety

Equality

2b) List three key points of legislation that affect employees in a business environment.

Employment Rights and Responsibilities

Pay and Pension

Health and Safety

3. Identify a range of places where a person can find information on employment rights and responsibilities. You should identify at least two internal and two external sources of information.

Internal

Line Manager

Employee Handbook

External

Citizens Advice Bureau

Library

4. Describe how representative bodies can support employees.

Representative bodies help by giving advice, support and guidance on matters such as Health and Safety, Pay and pensions, Redundancy and wage related issues in the workplace. The can also provide support in the case of a disciplinary action or if the employee is suffering any work related problems, they can also be used to liaise between and employer and employee.

5. Briefly describe employer and employee responsibilities for equality and diversity in a business environment.  You should give at least two employer responsibilities and two employee responsibilities.

If possible, provide relevant equality and diversity procedures from your workplace (or place of study) to support your answer.  These documents should be annotated to highlight the relevant sections.

One employer’s responsibility to equality and diversity is when hiring staff to make sure that they consider everyone for the position regardless of their age, weight, gender, religion, disability or anything else that may be discriminated on, there are slight exceptions to this, for example you could advertise that you are looking for someone over the age of 18 to serve alcohol behind a bar, this is a legal requirement that the person is over 18 as it is illegal of someone under that age to serve alcohol therefore this would not be discriminating someone because of their age.

Another employers responsibility would be to make sure that the workplace environment is suitable for their employees for example you couldn’t give someone who is disabled and wheelchair bound a job on the forth floor of a building and try to make them walk up the stairs you would have to make sure that there is something in place for them to be able to get to their workplace.

One Employees responsibility would be not to treat any of their peers differently, judge or stereotype regardless of any differences.

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Another would be to report any type of discrimination (be it to yourself or others) to the person responsible to dealing with it (be it a manager or supervisor etc)

6. Briefly explain the benefits of making sure equality and diversity procedures are followed in a business environment.  Your answer should include one benefit for the employer, one benefit for the employee and one benefit for the overall organisation.

A benefit for an employer is that people will want to work for them so they may be more likely to find the right ...

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This starts off being quite vague but the writer improves as they go along with mostly accurate responses to the questions. They come over as reasonably experienced in the world of work.