Discrimination: Discrimination means treating a person in a different way because of that parson’s gender or race or disability.
Sex discrimination: the discrimination act 1975 declares that it is unlawful for a person to be discriminated on ground of gender or marital status in workplace. As a result, a business can not advertise jobs for only women or only for men. Likewise the business can not choose employees for promotion by looking at their gender rather than capability.
Race relation: The race relation act 1995 declared that it is against the law to discriminate a person in employment because of the person’s race, origin or colour. For example- if an employer refuses an employee because the person is black then it would be illegal.
Disability discrimination: Disability discrimination law 1976 declared that it is illegal if an employer treats a disable person in less favourable way than other stuff. The law also requires employers to make ‘reasonable adjustment’ for the disable people in workplace, therefore they can be employed.
Health and safety law: Health and safety laws protect employees from danger and prevent accident happening in the workplace. Under the health and safety law of 1974, employers are required to ensure that they safeguard all their employees health, safely and welfare at workplace. The employees also have to follow the health and safety laws which will ensure the safety of themselves and other in the workplace.
National minimum wages law: According to the 1st October 2007 law, there are three levels of minimum wage, and the rates are £5.52 per hour for workers aged 22 years and over, £4.60 per hour for workers aged 18-21 and £3.40 per hour for all workers under the age of 18.
Reasons that cause disputes in Tesco: In a workplace disagreements can happen between two employees or an employee to an employer or an employer to an employee. They can have major or minor disagreements.
Minor disagreements are usually the uncomplicated disagreement which can be dealt within the workplace following the company’s grievance procedures.
Major disagreements are difficult to resolve, they may have take advice from outside of the business to resolve the disagreement. For example- trade unions, Arbitration services.
Disputes at the workplace can happen for a range of reason. In Tesco, dispute can occur if employees and employer do not agree with the pay rates or the working condition; if the employee thinks that he/she has been dismissed unfairly, wrongfully; if the employees have major disagreement with another employee or manager; they also can have disagreement if the employer do nor want the employee anymore but the employee is not ready to leave the job which is called redundant.
Procedures for dealing with disputes in Tesco
The procedures that Tesco deal with disputes are:
Using grievance procedures: Tesco’s grievance procedures is set of policies that explain how and whom to go if an employee have a complaint, who should the employee can go if the employee still not satisfy and it also state the time should take for a complain to be dealt with.
Tesco’s grievance procedures have number of stage to deal with a complaint. These stages are-
The manager of Tesco should response to the grievance interview quickly and they have to make decision within ten days. Employees can have a trade union official or a friend to sit on in every stage of the grievance procedures. It is employees legal right. Every employees of Tesco have a copy of grievance procedures with their contact of
employment. Tesco as a large company, have formal grievance procedures which are required by the law.
