Learning Outcome 3 /w Hanky &George

Contracts:
—Confidentiality
—Health and safety
Confidentiality is also known as a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). It is a legal contract between at least two parties that doesn't let people share certain information for certain reasons.  It is a contract that doesnt let you share certain information with third parties. An NDA creates a confidential relationship between the parties to protect any type of confidential and proprietary information that one of the parties may not want people to know about. As such, an NDA protects nonpublic information. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreement

Exclusivity:
Exclusivity means that you are an exclusive provider of goods or a service to a business or party.


Employment legislation:
Health And Safety
The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in Great Britain. The Health and Safety Executive, with local authorities is responsible for enforcing the Act and a number of other Acts and Statutory Instruments relevant to the working environment.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/legislation/hswa.htm 

Equal Opportunities 
The equality act makes it so people of all different ethnicity, age, sex and people with disabilities are all treated the same in the workplace and also in wider society. The Equality Act was enforced in 2010 and replaced the previous act that was making the law easier to understand.

https://www.gov.uk/equality-act-2010-guidance

Employment Equality Regulations 2006 
United Kingdom employment equality law is a law which legislates against prejudice-based actions in the workplace. As a part of UK labour law it is unlawful to discriminate against a person because they have one of the protected characteristics these are, age, disability,race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_employment_equality_law

Employer’s Liability 
Employers Liability is an insurance that employers must take out. As well as being insured, employers must post details of the insurance for staff to see. This is required for most companies to have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employers'_Liability_(Compulsory_Insurance)_Act_1969

Employee Rights 
As an employee you have the right to be treated equally no matter what your age, sex, ethnicity etc. Also their should be the right health and safety in place depending on what you are doing as a job. For example if you are working in an office make sure their is no trailing cables. You have the right to take out at least 4 weeks holiday per year with pay. 

http://career-advice.monster.co.uk/in-the-workplace/workplace-issues/what-are-my-rights-as-an-employee/article.aspx

Belonging To A Trade Union 
Belonging to a trade union will make sure you have good working conditions, improved health and safety and/or pay. They will help you train for new skills that will help you through your career. They will advise you on your legal employment rights and they will also give you advice on finance and problems at work.
Trade unions may also represent you outside of the workplace.

https://www.gov.uk/browse/working/rights-trade-unions

Intellectual Property 

Intellectual property is a legal concept that refers to the creation that exclusive rights are recognised. Under this law owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of assets.This can be musical, literary, artist works, discoveries and inventions etc. Common types of intellectual property rights include trademarks, copyright, patents etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property

Copyright 
Copyright is the legal law that grants someone exclusive rights usually for a limited time. This ensues that the creator gets money for their creation for example an author would get money for their book. This falls under intellectual property.
https://www.gov.uk/browse/working/rights-trade-unions
Trademarks 
A trade mark is a recognisable sign that is placed on either the product or packaging. They can put the trademark on the packaging or the product itself. For example Apple have put a trademark on the apple MacBooks fan system so no one else ca use it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark

Passing Off
Passing off is the law that enforces unregistered trademarks. This also protects them from representing their products in a wrong light.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off 

Unit 8 With Tom

Working Patterns?—

Shift Work

Shift work 
People use this method to try and cover the clock and not over work people. They may also do this if they are on a tight schedule and need to get a film or programme done For example if they need to finish a film by a certain date and they only have so long left they might make someone work from 8:00am - 8:00pm and then make the other person work from 8:00pm - 8:00am.

Generally fixed term contract means you are tied into the contract for a fixed term. An example would be like a telephone line, most companies have a fixed term contract of say 12 months, apart from your 'tester period'. At the beginning you are stuck in the contract for 12 months.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_workFixed term


Office hours
Office hours means the hours set for business, work or professional service in an office. It is a set amount of hours a day. For example a 
9-5 job which you do every day. Log in at 9 log out at 5.



Freelance
A person who sells their services to employers without a long term commitment to any of them. For example if a BBC needed someone to edit a show but it was a one off special and they didn't want their usual editors to work on it they may then hire a freelance worker so he can work for that one project and then have no long term commitment to them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer

Irregular patterns
This means you might have work for 3 months and then you may not have any work for 6 months so you don't work for a while and your work becomes irregular. For example an actor might get a part in a movie and shoot for 6 months then not get another role for a month then shot for 4 months then not get a job for 3 months etc etc. This then makes his work an irregular pattern.

Hourly rates
Hourly rates is how much money you get paid hourly. For example if you were working as a camera man and they said they are Paying you hourly then they may pay you £7.00 and hour so for every hour you are their working you get paid £7.00. 

Piece work
Piece work is any type of employment were a worker is paid a fixed piece rate for each unit produced or action performed regardless of time. This means they might say they will give you £2000 to do a project and finish it. However could work for a total amount of 300 hours or 500 hours on one project and get paid the same no matter if you work for both amount of hours.