Starting-Out-Your-Employment-Rights

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STARTING OUT:
YOUR EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS
AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Welcome to Starting Out: your employment rights and responsibilities
Starting Out: your employment rights and responsibilities is designed to raise young
people’s awareness of their employment rights and responsibilities. Created for Key Stage
4, Starting Out encourages learners to engage with work-related issues at a significant
stage in their lives. Many young people will undertake work experience or part-time work
from the age of 14, and also begin exploring their longer-term career plans. Through a
combination of pre-filmed scenarios and classroom-based activities, Starting Out examines
legal requirements, anti-discrimination rules and health and safety principles
in an informative and entertaining way. Starting Out
directly promotes the Every Child Matters
programme by helping learners to
achieve economic well-being and stay
safe in the workplace. In addition,
it supports the provision of PSHE,
Citizenship and Work-related
Learning and the development
of PLTS and Functional Skills in
English and ICT.

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 2010

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How to use
The resource consists of a DVD, featuring twenty work-related
scenarios, and six 60-minute lesson plans with supporting
worksheets. The six lesson plans cover the following topics:

1.

Basic Rights: An introduction to the national minimum
wage, sick leave and pay, holiday leave and pay, part-time
workers’ rights and agency workers’ rights

2.

Discrimination Issues: Understanding how to identify and
overcome discrimination and harassment and learn more
about identifying employment rights

3.

Information Sources: Exploring where to find information
about employment rights and responsibilities

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