Employment law was made for the employees concern. Employment law protects employees rights, it also ensures that employees cannot be overworked, placed in an unhealthy or dangerous environment or rendered unable to work without appropriate compensation. Employee’s law also guarantees that employees cannot be eliminated unfairly against the law. This law makes employees free from the worry of exploitation of employers and other kind of crimes against employees and also protects their work area rights.

Before the beginning of industrial revolution there was almost no law for the employees concern. That time employees are much unsecured because they didn’t have any work area protections like they didn’t get benefit of health insurance and work compensation that time, they also get low wages and their working hours were also too long employers treated them as they want.

After industrial revolution there is huge difference in working areas of employees that wasn’t before industrial revolution,

Here are some rights of employees which each employee must know for their protection at work area. These are following:

Written statement of terms: Under employment law this is one of the important right of employees. This right says every employee should get a written statement of terms within 2 months of starting your job. If employee didn’t get this statement within 2 months, the employee can refer the matter to an employment tribunal.

The notice requirement: Notice is required when employer wants to eliminate the employee or employee wants to leave the job. In both these cases notice must be given. Notice is given on the basis of time period mention in contract or in case of short duration job like employee worked for one month than notice of 1 week is given by the employer/employee. This right is beneficial for both the employee and employer.

Sex and Race discrimination: Discrimination of employee on the basis of sex and race is not tolerable under this law employee can apply for claim in these situations. If a person didn’t get promoted just because of their sex and race than person can report it an employment tribunal within three months of the act of discrimination.

Unfair dismissal: In case of unfair dismissal you can claim only when you full fill all eligibility conditions. You can only get this claim when your employer fail to give acceptable reason for dismissal. If employer succeeded in giving particular reason than employee’s claim will be rejected.

Redundancy payment: Redundancy payment is given to employee when his/ her dismissal is unfair and employer unable to prove satisfying reason for dismissal. In case there is redundancy in employees job than the required job places employer has right to eliminate the employee but he has to give redundancy payment to employee.