Employment Rights
Ten things your boss does not want you to know
Regardless of work status (temporary, permanent, full or part time) and regardless of contract type, most of us are entitled to certain basic statutory rights. Among others you have the right to:
- Right to wages at least £4.85 per hour (£4.10 for workers aged 18 – 21 years). From October 2005, the rate at least £5.05 per hour (and similarly, £4.25 for workers aged 18-21).
- Right to at least 4 weekly paid holidays throughout the year
- Right to at least 20 minute breaks after each 6 hours of work
- Right to refuse to work over 48 hours weekly
- Right to sickness benefit in case of illness
- Right to maternity benefit and maternity leave for child birthhood.
- Right to carry out work in conditions free from racial or sexual harassment.
- Right to join trade unions as well as the right to form trade unions in your workplace
- Right to time off work in order to care for persons remaining in our maintenance
- Right to protection in front of dismissal with [grozacym] us with cause test [wyegzekwowania]entitled to our statutory work rights.
These are just some of the statutory employment rights. If you need more information on this subject, contact us at “Solidarity Federation”, contact your local Citizens Advice Bureau or contact your trade union. Information on the the subject of employment rights regulations are also available at libraries and on the internet.
On the government internet website http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/individual.htm [znajdziesz] most exhaustive and current information on the subject of employment rights regulations.
Temporary Work and Employment Agencies
Law [dorywcze] is currently very speading work status in Great Britain. About 2 million workers work on a “temporary” basis (excluding those employed for a specific time period). Most workers are employed temporarily or by agency, not having self-employed status, that is, working on own their account (self-employed), but have employment status and have rights similar to workers employed on different conditions.
Depending on the type of your contract of employment and the way you are paid, your employer agency will be an employment agent or employment business. Both, in the case of employment agencies and employment business, have certain obligations with respect to their employees, that is, you.
There is also legal regulations to regulate the activities of employment agencies.
Regulations require agencies to:
Health and Safety Law
In Great Britain each year a thousand people perish due to workplace accidents and a further thousand workers succumb to serious injuries from work. The overwhelming majority of fatal accidents concern workers where there is no manager and, in practice, everything is evaded. Health and Safety law is not for the employer's viewpoint or profit, that is why many employers try to avoid Health and Safety regulations, which is a legal obligation. As workers we should be vigilant, to support one another and to [swiadomi] our rights.
Employers have legal obligations to all their workers. Their obligations, amongst others, are:
If right away workplace is union representative health and safety matters, he or she has right to:
Regulation health and Safety is subject to criminal laws, that is why ? Not followed perhaps to lead (at least originally) to large fines and imprisonment.
More information on Health and Safety can be obtained from trade union representatives and the local Health and Safety Executive office, the address for the London area is:
Rose Court
2 Southwark Bridge
London SE1 9HS
Tel: 020 7556 2100
Fax: 020 7556 2102
