How’s your Employment Law know-how?

Facilitated by law firm Bird & Bird, a recent meeting of London HR Connection included an employment law quiz. Thanks to both for allowing us to use it here.

Test yourself on the fourth part of the quiz of HR and recruitment-based legalities. We’ll offer another round next Friday. Good luck!

Note: Don’t scroll down the page too quickly - the answers are at the bottom of this page!

ROUND 4 - Alphabet Round (each answer is one word, the first letter of which is further on in the alphabet than the previous answer)

1.If, for instance, an employer discriminates against an employee because he has a disabled child, this is illegal under the Equality Act and is referred to as WHAT KIND of discrimination?

2.In which Nordic country (where B&B opened its 25th international office just 2 weeks ago!) do approximately 70% of employees belong to a trade union and do very few statutory employment laws or legislative provisions apply?

3.All employers with between 50 and 249 employees have been set a staging date sometime between 1 April 2014 – 1 April 2015 in order to organise automatic WHAT for employees?

4.From this summer, unfair dismissal compensation will be limited to £74,200 or 52 weeks pay, whichever is the [INSERT]

5.What procedure (hated by employers), that has been repealed by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act (although the change has not yet taken effect), enables employees who think they have been unlawfully discriminated against to seek information and an explanation from the person they believe has discriminated against them?

6.Employers who are registered with the UK Border Agency must apply for this type of certificate before they can bring an individual to work in the UK.  It is called a ‘Certificate of WHAT?

7.Another change coming in to the whistle blowing arena is to introduce WHAT SORT of liability for employers who have not taken steps to protect whistle-blowers against harassment by other employees? 

Answers

1. ASSOCIATIVE (applies to all strands of discrimination except marriage. Unclear whether it applies to pregnancy)

2. DENMARK

3. ENROLMENT (pension auto-enrolment)

4. LOWER. The stated aim is to encourage more realistic perceptions of tribunal awards by all parties and to encourage the earlier resolution of disputes.  High earners will not be affected.

5. QUESTIONNAIRE

6.S PONSORSHIP. The UKBA has confirmed that it has restricted the number of Certificates which can be assigned during the year 6 April 2013 – 5 April 2014 to 20,700 or 1,725 per month

7.V ICARIOUS – essential that employers have policies to protect themselves.