Business Legislation
The main laws a business must obey: employment law and the Equality Act protecting workers, health and safety law keeping the workplace safe, and consumer law protecting the people who buy its goods.
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The rules a business must obey
A business is not free to do whatever it likes. Laws protect the people who work for it and the people who buy from it. This module works through the main areas: employment law and the Equality Act that protect workers, health and safety law that keeps the workplace safe, and consumer law that protects customers. The trick is knowing which law covers which situation.
Legal words to know
Learn these before you sort the laws out.
Protecting staff against protecting buyers
Sort each law by whose side it is on.
Sort a law by who it protects
In the exam, sort a law by who it protects. Some rules look after staff: one sets a fair wage, another stops people being treated unfairly, and another makes the workplace itself safe. A different set looks after the people buying, so goods must match their description, be of decent quality and do the job. Name the area of law and say what it makes the business do.
Match the law
- employment law
- the Equality Act
- health and safety law
- consumer law
- protects workers, including their pay
- bans discrimination at work
- keeps the workplace safe
- protects people who buy goods
Match the rule to the law
- paying at least the minimum wage
- not discriminating against a worker
- guarding dangerous machinery
- describing goods honestly
- comes under employment law
- comes under the Equality Act
- comes under health and safety law
- comes under consumer law
Which law is this?
Which law makes sure goods are described honestly and are of satisfactory quality?
- Consumer law
- Employment law
- Health and safety law
- Company law
True about the law
Select the TWO true statements about business legislation.
- Employment law includes a minimum wage
- Consumer law protects people who buy goods
- Health and safety law exists to protect a company profit
- The Equality Act allows discrimination at work
Work out the day pay
A worker is paid the minimum wage of 10 pounds an hour and works 8 hours in a day. Multiply the hourly wage by the hours worked to find the day pay in pounds. What is the answer?
Order the compliance steps
Put the steps a business takes to obey the law in order, earliest first.
- Find out which laws apply to the business
- Pay staff at least the minimum wage
- Keep the workplace safe and train staff
- Describe goods honestly to customers
Complete the rules
The laws protecting workers and their pay are _____ law. The laws protecting people who buy goods are _____ law. The laws keeping the workplace safe are _____ and safety law. Treating someone unfairly for who they are is _____, which the Equality Act bans.
Spot the employment duties
Tap the TWO things employment law requires of a business.
- pay workers at least the minimum wage
- treat all workers fairly without discrimination
- describe its products honestly to buyers
- guard its machines to keep them safe
Which law was broken?
Read each case and choose the law involved.
- A shop sells a coat described as leather when it is really plastic. Which law has it broken?
- An employer refuses to promote a worker because of their age. Which law protects the worker?
- A factory leaves a dangerous machine unguarded and a worker is hurt. Which law has it broken?
Explain business legislation
Explain the main areas of law a business must follow.
- Explain what employment law and the Equality Act require
- Explain what health and safety law requires
- Explain what consumer law requires