8Statutory employment protections
Aims and Objectives
After reading this chapter you should be able to:
- ■ Understand the rules relating to wages, deductions from wages and the National Minimum Wage
- ■ Understand what is meant by a guarantee payment and the circumstances where they are made
- ■ Understand the rules relating to sickness, medical suspension and paid sick leave
- ■ Understand the rules relating to maternity, leave during maternity, maternity payments, and dismissal and discrimination because of pregnancy or maternity
- ■ Critically analyse the area
- ■ Apply the law to factual situations and reach conclusions
8.1 Wages
8.1.1 The meaning of wages
The basic obligation on an employer to pay wages is clearly a contractual one. This is the consideration ...
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