Sex discrimination: - Sex discrimination is when someone is discriminated because of what there race is or what the look like or there gender. Lex Transfleet employees both men and women so they don't write things like 'only men apply' on their job adverts. 2 Equal Pay Act 1970:- This act was introduced to make it unlawful to give another employee or employer doing the same job but having a different amount of wage.
Lex pays both men and women equally so they are paid fair according to their responsibilities not their sex. They are also given equal opportunities. 3 Race Relations 1976:- Race relations act is when someone is another colour of because of their religion and is treated in a different way towards others because they look different. Lex Transfleet employee again all races and the advertisements are open to anyone that can carry out the role regardless of their race.
They are also given opportunities for management as well. 4 Disability Discrimination Act 1995:- Disability discrimination is when someone is disabled and are not treated in a well manner against others because they are not capable of doing something because of disability reasons or not given a job because they are disable but still can be capable of doing the job. Lex Transfleet doesn't discriminate against disability as log as they can carry out the role and not put themselves at risk or anyone else.
5 The Employment Rights Act 1996:- Each employee an employer have rights that they expect one an another to do... if those rights were not being done right and no one was to care about the employers or employees rights then that would be wrong against the employers an employees. 6 National Minimum Wage Act 1998:- If the employees an employers were not given the right amount of salary or wage a year or month or week and were given less then that would be taken as a national minimum wage act.
In Lex employee are paid more than the minimum wages so are not breaking the law and meeting this law to meet their employee's expectations to pay them a fair wages. 7 Data Protection Act 1998:- Data act is when a piece of data is given in an should b protected if the data that is given to the employer an employee by others or there own personal data was not being taken care of and been given out 2 others it would be known as a data protection act. 8 Lex Transfleet employees are advised by Lex about what and who are going to use their data and it's all confidential.
Task C2:- Disciplinary procedure:- The disciplinary procedure means when a complaint is taken place against an employer because they are unfair then the managers have to choose from a disciplinary action to be taken and solved. Employees can be sacked from their jobs for gross misconduct if they do something serious... e. g. if they steal from Lex Transfleet or if they are violent. Sickness regulations and Disciplinary procedures in Lex Transfleet is where each member of staff has a form on which is recorded their individual absence record.
This is completed by their Line Manager following every occasion on which the employee has been away from. The manager also has to complete monthly Departmental Attendance records on the company's e-mail system. Where there is a poor record of attendance, the employee is interviewed and asked to provide a satisfactory explanation for the situation. If this is not provided a warning is issued or a sanction is used. If there are lengthy absences by the employee in Lex and if they failed to produce the necessary and the reasons were not genuine then, a counselling interview is held to discuss the issue further.
Then given an opportunity to provide further information. If Lex are still dissatisfied with the information. Other issues where the disciplinary procedure can be taken out by Lex of if the employee is late to work, for example if they are late once then they may just get a verbal warning but if they are late twice they may get a written warning and if they are repeatedly late despite being told off then they can be sacked for gross misconduct.
The Lex policy handbook has the disciplinary procedure in there. The disciplinary procedure in Lex is as follows: 1. They give standards warning letters which are available form HR department and are used in give information on disciplinary actions on employees 2. They give warning for misconduct when the worker in Lex works below the standards which them inefficient. 3. They give out informal warning to the employees when targets are not met and they are written down in the employees file.
4. They give verbal warnings, it is given when the employee is not working right and breaking rules they are give given the warning orally. 5. When the employee is committing an act of gross misconduct they are suspended the suspension is carried out for as long as they need. 6. When an employee breaks the act of gross misconduct which involves theft, dishonesty or fraud these kinds of things would make the company dismiss the employer.
The investigation and the conduct of proceedings relating to misconduct should be dealt with by the managers at departmental management level. Effort should be made of the religion or the location of the manager who may be required to carry out the dismissal action or senior manager who may be required to hear the appeal. Also smaller instances the employees in Lex receive verbal warning for smaller vigilance e. g. being late once; written warnings for repeat offence and dismal for act of Gross misconduct if employee does something serious e.
g. stealing, always being late, being lazy, fraud ect. Grievance Procedure:- The grievance procedure means that if an employee or employer complains about something or someone or think that they are being treated unfairly towards others then the grievance should be handled. Lex Transfleet will try and resolve disputes internally because they want to be efficient and it costs a lot of money. Lex resolves disputes and it depends on the type of dispute and how serious it are, for example, there are different types of disputes.
Disputes can be for various reasons, for example, - less money paid than stated on the contract to the employee, working arrangements are incorrect, bullying, racism and discrimination against race or for example if the employee is being bullied or something like that. initially Lex will try and resolve disputes internally because they want to be efficient and its cost a lot of money if there are a lot of disputes going around and for smaller instances for example problems with machinery, training nor given or problems with other staff can generally be sorted out through the management. Employment Tribunals:-
An employment tribunal is something that is serious an based in a court the employment tribunals listen to two sides of the story's which are both against each other and then they are questioned an proof is all read out an helps to solve the problem then they come to one decision its like if something serious happens between an employer or an employee an the managers cant do nothing about it then it is passed on to something which will resolve the problem an that's where the employment tribunals come in so when everything is sorted its either a fair choice some one gets their job back or looses it in some serious cases in Lex for example if the employee was discriminated against not given a promotion due to her sex e. g. she was a female. Negotiation with Trade Unions or Other Representative Organisations:- If disputes cannot be resolved by managers then it will go to the Trade Union who can help the employee in Lex Transfleet to help them. A Trade Union is an organisation that helps protect and support employees rights and working arrangements and they can negotiate on behalf of the employee, represent them when resolving disputes at Lex, they can also give legal advice to the employee about their rights. They can negotiation on behalf of the employee if they are being treated unfairly by the employer.
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