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EMPLOYMENT LAW

Employment law is that part of law which deals with the legal problems arising from the employment relationship. The relationship between employer and employee is based on the contract of employment. However, with the development of trade unions, employers’ organizations and, in particular, state intervention, the subject covers many aspects other than simply the contract of employment. Traditionally it has been thought that employment law exists largely to prevent the need for the parties to resort to the tribunals or courts. Recent trends have meant increased confrontation in the employment sphere and parties in such disputes seem more willing to resort to legal redress. The law, therefore, is becoming increasingly important in such areas.

Particularly in the past twenty years, employment law has had a growing significance for managers — whether general managers or human resource practitioners. Potentially, it influences and may constrain action that managers want to take.

A manager advising on the handling of a dismissal, for example, is more likely to produce an effective and lawful outcome if she/he does not focus exclusively on the problem in hand (terminating the employment of an employee who has misbehaved). Remembering the purposes behind the legislation (to provide fair reasons, fair treatment and natural justice and consideration of all the circumstances) is important. Similarly, a recognition of the business context and organizational needs is important.

Likewise, the development of corporate policies is more likely to be effective and well-informed if they are not seen, narrowly, as a series of conditions of employment to be applied mechanistically. For example, when parental leave policies are formulated, an understanding of the social trends against which they are developed is important (e.g. greater economic activity by women, longer working hours, difficulties of reconciling work and non-work life). Furthermore, the social purposes behind this legislation (to promote family-friendly policies and provide a better balance between work and non-work life) should be acknowledged to ensure that the corporate policies achieve the statutory objectives.

Broadly speaking, the employment relationship is regulated by voluntary and legal measures. Voluntary measures comprise agreements and other decisions. They also include voluntarily accepted standards of good practice. These voluntary and legal mechanisms achieve two broad purposes. First, they influence the function of management; i.e. the ways in which managers exercise power, control workforces and manage conflicts of interest. The influence on management can be illustrated in the following way. It is widely accepted that the employment relationship is characterised by an imbalance of power in favour of the employer. Both voluntary and legal regulation can restrain the unfair exercise of this employer power. Furthermore, the law can establish both minimum conditions of employment and also set limits on the action an employer might take against employees.



The second purpose is to assert certain principles. There are those principles that influence the nature and quality of decisions that are made (for example, fairness, equal treatment, reasonableness, etc.). And some others, for example, the fundamental importance of consent to the contract of and of procedural fairness in disciplinary cases.

Make up a plan of the text in the form of questions. Ask your partner to answer them.

3. WORD STUDY. Find the meaning in which the wordto employ is used in the text:

1. give work to, usually for payment.

2. make use of smth

4. PREPOSITIONS. Choose the right preposition in brackets according to the contents of the sentences(against, on, with, for, between, to).

1. Employment law is that part of law which deals_____ the legal problems arising from the employment relationship.

2. A manager advises ____ the handling of a dismissal.

3. It is important to understand the social trends______ which they are developed, when parental leave policies are formulated.

4. An official who understands corporate purposes is better able to defend and argue____ policy developments with colleagues

5. The social purposes behind this sphere of legislation are to promote family; friendly policies and provide a better balance_______ work and nonwork life.

6. Employment law exists largely to prevent the need for the parties to a dispute to resort_____ the tribunals or courts.


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