Employment Law Case Study

What is Employment Law:

Employment law (EL) is the body of law which oversees the relationship between employers and their employees. Employment law is a broad field but key elements of employment law are the employment rights which are instructed upon both the employee and the employer. The Employment Law covers key elements such as Pay, Discrimination, Equality, Employment rights, responsibilities, health and safety etc.

Overview:

Employment law (EL) has been changed significantly and has brought changes since it came into force, It’s still very complex but good effort has been made to make the law pretentious and easier for employers and employees to understand their rights.

• Employment law is set and employers must abide, as its main purpose is to protect the workers, women, vulnerable against undervaluation of wages and discrimination of any kind etc. There can be serious consequences if the employer fails to follow procedures, guidelines set out by Employment Law which may include costly reimbursement claims against the employer or former employee whose rights have been violated in any way and which can in return damage the employer reputation.

• Law on equal pay which was announced by Equal Pay act 1970 which is now confined in to

Positive outcome has to be cherished after decades of struggle but the Organisations will have to still play a vigorous role in narrowing the pay gap which has been certainly identified by, Becker’s influential economic theory of discrimination, “discrimination on grounds of sex or race arises from employer’s subjective preferences or tastes” (Deakin 2012,