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Principles of Employment Law Individual labour law This body of law
relates to the rights and obligations of individual employees. Over the last
30 years the number of individual labour laws passed has increased
considerably. These include
such laws as the Equal pay act 1970, the sex discrimination act 1975 and the
race relations act 1976. Individual labour law Individual
labour law comprises the entire body of regulations relating to the
individual employment relationship between the employer on the one hand and
the employee on the other This includes
such issues as the nature and various types of individual contracts of
employment, part-time work, probation clauses , the respective obligations
and rights of employer and employee, suspension of the performance of the
employment contract and termination of employment. Collective labour law Collective
labour law relates to the activities of trade unions and the operation of
industrial relations. For example in the 1980’s the conservative party
passed a series of laws restricting the power of trade unions.
This legislation gave the power to employers of
trade unions for loss of earnings.
Other
legislation includes the Employment Act 1980, and the trade union act 1984. Impact on business of employment legislation Labours laws have a profound impact on businesses as
labour is a main component of any business.
With all these laws and
legislation firms are nowadays more vulnerable to prosecution and thus firm
have very tight regulations to ensure that they are not sued and thus costs
increase. Generally labour
laws and all business related legislation usually increases production costs.
Impact on business of employment legislation In general the
impact of legislation has good and bad effects on businesses. It could be
argued that the impact is less on large multinational companies because they
have a much wider base to spread the costs out that employment legislation
incur Generally labour
laws and all business related legislation usually increases production costs.
Minister explains new union laws (bbc 11.9.98)
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