UNIT I. EMPLOYMENT LAW

READING:

Employment Law,

Introduction to Employment Law,

EU employment laws mean case bonanza,

Discrimination.

LISTENING:

Work vs. Job,

Types of employment,

Employer’s duty towards employee,

Employee’s duty,

Employment contract,

Wrongful and unfair dismissal,

Redundancy and retirement dismissal,

Remedies for wrongful or unfair dismissal,

An employment tribunalclaim,

Liability risks.

SPEAKING:

Agreeing and disagreeing,

Case discussion

WRITING:

Attachments and formality,

Advising on advantages and disadvantages in an email

GRAMMAR:

Gerund vs. Infinitive

Starter. 1. What do these quotations mean? Which do you agree with? Do you have any favourite quotations of your own?

Which quotations do you find relevant to today’s world or your own life? In what ways? Discuss with your partner and with your group.

Learn whatever you can, wherever you can, from whoever you can. I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

G. Marx, US comedian

Man unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

John Steinbeck, “Grapes of Wrath”

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.