SHaW ACT
This legislation replaced the Factories Act and applies to almost every workplace.
What is the Safety and Health at Work (SHaW) Act?
This document must be provided within 14 days after employment ends.
What is the Certificate of Employment?
Employees generally need this period of continuous service before becoming eligible
What is 12 months?
Employees with less than five years' service receive at least this much annual leave.
What are three weeks?
A supervisor repeatedly tells sexual jokes. Even employees who were not directly targeted may be considered what?
What are victims of a hostile work environment?
Employers with this number of employees must establish a Safety and Health Committee.
What is 25 employees?
Before dismissing an employee, an employer should normally follow this process.
What is a fair disciplinary procedure?
The minimum maternity leave entitlement.
What is 14 weeks?
Employees with five years or more receive at least this much annual leave.
What are four weeks?
An employee reports harassment by a hotel guest. The manager says: "Just avoid him." Did the employer meet its legal duty?
No.
Employees have a legal duty to report these.
What are unsafe conditions, accidents or breaches of the Act?
If an employer plans to reduce the workforce by 10% or more, this must occur first.
What is consultation?
The minimum paternity leave entitlement.
What is three weeks?
Under the Shops Act, the normal workweek is this many hours.
What is 40 hours?
A cashier accidentally damages equipment. The employer deducts the full month's wages. Which Act may have been breached?
What is Protection of wages Act
This legal principle means an employer may be responsible for the actions of employees.
What is vicarious liability?
An employee made redundant has this right if the employer rehires for the same position within six months.
What is the first opportunity to return?
An employer cannot do this while an employee is on approved family leave.
What is dismiss or suspend the employee?
Work on a closed day is paid at this rate.
What is double time?
A construction company works 56 hours every week.Does the Shops Act automatically apply?
No.
A worker removes the machine guard because it slows production and is injured.
Who still has the primary legal duty?
Who is the employee
A company dismisses an employee without a hearing because "everyone knows he did it."
What claim is most likely?
What is unfair dismissal?
A manager reduces an employee's position immediately after maternity leave because "someone else performed better."
Which legal principle may have been breached?
What is protection from unfair dismissal/discrimination during family leave?
A public holiday falls during an employee's approved vacation.
What happens?
The employee receives one additional day of holiday.
A company closes one department because new technology replaces the work. Employees lose their jobs. Which legislation governs the payments?
What is the Severance Payments Act?