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BPTC Law Notes Employment Law Notes

Advice 1 Notes

Updated Advice 1 Notes

Employment Law Notes

Employment Law

Approximately 66 pages

A guide to some of the key issues in employment law and a general script that can be followed for oral exams for how to discuss these topics.

Also provides some of the guides on how to do calculations (eg. basic award).

**Now up to date for 2015!**...

The following is a more accessible plain text extract of the PDF sample above, taken from our Employment Law Notes. Due to the challenges of extracting text from PDFs, it will have odd formatting:

ADVICE 1

Good we’re making progress. I’m now going to advise you on the law.

ELIGIBILITY

You’re eligible for a claim for unfair dismissal. This is due to the fact that you’re an employee, evidence by your contract of employment, the amount of time you’ve been employed continuously and that you’ve been working in Great Britain.

UNFAIR DISMISSAL LAW

So under the Employment Rights Act you have the right not to be unfairly dismissed by your employer.

DISMISSAL: Clearly you would be able to show that you were dismissed. The question would be was this unfair.

Your employer would seemingly say that the principal reason why they dismissed you was that ________________________. They would argue that this was potentially fair as it relates to your conduct (and perhaps your capability). Therefore, for you to win your case the employment tribunal would have to conclude that this substantive reason for your...

Buy the full version of these notes or essay plans and more in our Employment Law Notes.