: the Impact of Legal and Regulatory Framework on Recruitment and Selection Activities

Wages: The act determines methods of wage payment and establishes the right for you to not suffer from unauthorised wage reductions.

where comparable to men’s work must receive equal pay; Equal pay for work of equal value is

The Act requires public bodies to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people, and also gives rights to them in areas such as employment and education;

Recruitment is the process of attracting, screening and hiring people or a person for a job. The attracting process of recruitment is where the business advertises the available job vacancies for a period of time. Once the deadline of the advertisement has arrived, the business collects up all the CV’s from the applicants and they are all checked off against the person specification. This is where the applications are selected by the business, the selected applications are then invite by the business for an interview and from there they are able to decide whether they are suited for the job.

Recruitment can incur a very large cost to an employer, therefore, organizations try to uses the method of recruitment which will have the lowest cost impact to the organization for each candidate.

Discrimination: Discrimination in itself is purposeful exclusion of an individual or group based on specific characteristics. It could be direct, indirect or combined. People that are already vulnerable in most cases find it have to bounce back from it.

Prevent discrimination: support equality – This sector of the act explains where discrimination is most likely to occur in the workplace and how to stop it happening

buying or renting land or property, including making it easier for people with disabilities to rent property and for tenants to make disability-related adaptations

The major piece of legislation in the UK that impacts on staff recruitment and selection is The Equality Act of 2010. This statute consolidated nine separate pieces of anti-discrimination legislation into a single Act these were

This act applies for both men and women. It promotes that both men and women should be treated equally. For example, in transport, education, jobs etc. It promotes anti-discriminatory practice by making sure those men and women are treated equally, if this act applies didn’t exist, men and women may be deprived of certain choices. This act includes any discrimination against homosexual marriages or civil partnerships, any discrimination against pregnant women and maternity leave, also about equal pay for both men and women.

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is in place to make it so men and women are paid the same if they are performing the same jobs. It gives equality in the workplace between men and women.

* Recruitment policy; will provide a framework for recruitment policy. Policies and procedures on how to recruit, who to recruit and based on what.. Policies and procedures will be adhering to Legal Factors such as: Law and various acts such as Child Labour Act 1986, Equality Act 2010 & Discrimination, Immigration etc.

Equal Pay The Equality Act 2010, which encompasses the Equal Act 1970, made it unlawful to pay men and women differently if they were employed in :

Recruitment is the process of generating a pool of capable people to apply for employment to an organisation.

(a) that pay for the same work at piece rates shall be calculated on the basis of the same unit of measurement;