EMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYEE RIGHTS

OBJECTIVES• Raise awareness about employee rights

• Preserve the financial and moral rights of the citizens in addition to duties and responsibilities

•  Hear the employees’ complaints and grievances related to their personal, financial and moral rights.

 • Join efforts with the legal department and the other

Ministry’s departments to hear and discuss complaints.

 

• Contribute in preparing and amending policies, regulations and information systems.

 • Coordinate with regulatory, executive and consultative

government bodies

• Offer private courses dealing with the legal and formal aspects of the people in the employee affairs divisions

• Motivate employees to improve their performance.

• Emphasize the new employee orientation program and add their jobs’ general and specific aspects to the program

 • Create new statistical methods and a periodic

review mechanism to preserve rights and follow up related progress. 

Employment Rights Act 1996•  Part l, Employment particulars

• Parts II, and III, Wages and payment

• Parts IVA, and V, Disclosures and detriment 

• Parts IV, VI and VII, Sundays, betting, time off and suspension

• Part VIII, Child care

• Part IX, Dismissal notice and reasons

• Part X, Unfair dismissal

• Part XI, Redundancy payments

• Part XII, Employer insolvency

• Part XIII, Miscellaneous

 

Labour law1. Individual labour law :

• Contract of employment• Minimum wage• Working time:• Health and safety• Anti-discrimination• Unfair dismissal• Child labour

2 . Collective labour law :

• Trade unions• Strikes• Pickets• Workplace involvement• Co-determination

    Ways Managers and Supervisors Can 

Influence Their Companies Climate 

of Fairness and Behavior

EMPLOYEE RIGHTS

EMPLOYEES MUST :Work safely to protect themselves and others from injury and follow all OHS instructions, for example: Wear all personal protective 

equipment provided. Follow safe work 

procedures. Not interfere with or misuse 

anything provided by the employer.

Not remove or change machine guards.

 Not behave in a way that puts themselves or others at risk.

 Respond to a reasonable request to provide assistance or first aid to an injured person at work.

EMLPOYERS MUST : Properly orientate, train and supervise staff  Consult with all employees Provide suitable personal protective equipment 

(PPE)  Regularly check OHS systems and procedures.

Prevention Is Better Than Cure• Increase awareness about 

psychosocial hazards• Encourage an appropriate 

management style and organisational culture

• Carry out a risk assessment for psychosocial hazards

• Preventing violence: some possible changes to the physical environment

• Preventing violence and harassement

• Developing policies and procedures

• Information, instruction and training

• Monitoring the situation

• Identify sources of support and advice

• Relativism vs. absolutism      Absolutism: ethical principle must be 

applicable everywhere      Relativism: view of ethics must always be 

relative to the historical, social and cultural

Seven Steps to Protect Your Employees From Customer Verbal Abuse

Exceptional Customer Service  State Your Policies Up Front    Open and Clear Communication   Competent Management Staff   Negotiation Skills   Better Training for Employees   Consistency

Types of Mandated Employee Benefits

• COBRA• Disability• Family and Medical leave act• Minimum Wage• Overtime• Social Security Disability insurance• Unemployment benefits• Workers compensation

CONCLUSION :

 The conduct of employees must:

• Reflect the qualities of courtesy, integrity, and loyalty to the united states;

• A deep sense of responsibility for the public trust;

• Promptness in dealing with and serving the public; and

• A standard of personal behavior that reflects positively upon and will be a credit to both employees and the service.