Policy
Policy ID: | EQ056 | Policy: | Ensure Department of Employment has legal rights to enforce employee protections |
Category: | Employment | SubCategory: | Working Time |
Description and Support Documents
Enforce workplace rights, including the Real Living Wage
- DoE will be given extensive powers to inspect workplaces and bring prosecutions and civil proceedings on workers behalf
- enforce equal pay
- EQ086 Ensure that the single-sex-based exemptions contained in the Equality Act 2010 are understood and fully enforced in service provision
Corresponding Key Policy
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Corresponding Charter Article
C4. Employment
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for themselves and any dependents an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented if necessary by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and to join a trade union for the protection of their interests. Where workers form or invite a union to represent their rights, the union will have fair representation at executive level witin an organisation.
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