1. Employment Rights for One Housing Group www.blueprintrecruitment.uk
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2. Statutory Rights 1 2 3 4 Pay - National Minimum Wage
T’s & C’s of your job 2
Paid Leave 3
Unpaid Leave 4
Statutory Rights

3. Statutory Rights cont’d
Hours – Maximum 48 hours per week 1
Discrimination – Age Sex Ethnicity Geographical 2
Whistleblowing – Snitches don’t always get stitches 3
Notice for Dismissal 4
Statutory Rights cont’d

4. Dismissal and Disciplinary Action
1 month entitles you to notice before being dismissed
Pregnant/Maternity Leave requires a written explanation
Trade Union representative

5. The Employment contract
Part Timers compared to Full Timers
Fixed term compared to Permanent
26 weeks entitlement
- You have the right to submit a request for flexible working
After a year of working for an employer, you will usually gain the following statutory rights:
- You should be allowed to take unpaid parental leave
If you started your job before  6th April 2012 and you are dismissed by your employer you have the right to receive a written explanation of the reason

6. Contracts for Employment
Entitled within 2 months
Employee/Employer agreement
Written or Verbal
Contracts cannot remove rights
Contracts can add rights – 28 days to 30 days
Implied terms – Work standards that are standard

7. The main terms and conditions of employment
your name and the name of your employer
the date you started working for them
your job title
your wages and how often they will be paid
the hours you work

8. T’s & C’s of Employment cont’d
your entitlement to paid holiday and how much time you may take off
the company’s sick leave policy
the location of the job and whether you may have to work at more than one site
details of any company pension schemes
the notice period your employer will give you if you are dismissed, and the amount of notice you must give them if you wish to leave
disciplinary, grievance and dismissal procedures

9. Your pay rights as an employee
The current hourly National Minimum Wage is as follows:
£6.95 for workers aged 21 or over
£5.55 for workers aged from 18 – 20
£4.00 for workers aged from 16 – 17
£3.40 for apprentices who are in the first year of their apprenticeship or aged below 19

10. Payslip your wages before deductions (gross wages)
either a total amount, or an itemised breakdown, of any fixed deductions (i.e. trade union subscriptions), depending on whether you have a 'standing statement of fixed deductions'
any variable deductions broken down (for example, tax)
net wages amount (total after deductions)
method and amount for any part-payment of wage (i.e. itemised amounts of cash payments and balance credited to the employee's bank account)

11. Payslips cont’d pay rate (by the hour or annually)
additional payments i.e. overtime, bonuses or tips, as a total or separately
your National Insurance number
tax codes

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