Work and Work Futures Part D Flashcards
Define Insurance
Guarantee of compensation, for future loss, damage, illness, death in return for a specific payment in the present,
How has Covid 19 Pandemic Change Our Way of Working?
*Working Remotely
*Increased awareness of Physical and Mental health well being
*The office as a social interactive environment
*Benefits of flexibility and convenience
*training and professional development courses online to upskill employee
Define Enterprising
Demonstrating initiative and willingness to undertake new projects
Define Employee
An individual hired to perform specific tasks in return for payment
What are Soft Skills and Hard Skills
*Softs skills are skills that shows the quality of the person that allows them to effectively interact
*Hard skills are techniques that can be measure are are taught and learnt.
Explain Why Soft Skills are more important than Hard Skills
Soft skills are harder to developed, as they are qualities of a person based on how they are raised, whereas hard skills are teachable everyone can learn, is why jobs required hard skills are competitive
What is a modern award and an enterprise agreement
*Modern award is a legal agreement of minimum pay and working conditions in each kind of industry or occupation, it is a law and the conditions are unchangeable
*Enterprise agreement is an agreement made between employee and employer, negotiable between both parties
Define the Fair Work Commission
Australia’s National workplace relations tribunal, set minimum wages and working conditions and help with issues
What is “Better Off Overall Test” When Approving Enterprise Agreements
Commission must be satisfied that each employee would be better overall under the enterprise agreement than if the relevant modern award applied
Explain How an Employer and Employee May Engage With the Fair Work Commission
When agreements of wages and working conditions are made directly between employers and employee, agreements must be approved by the Fair Work Commission
What Makes a Job Satisfying?
-Enjoyable
-Knowledge
-Pay
-Location
-hygiene
-safety
Define Discrimination
treating a person differently from another person based on their personal characteristics
What are 2 Conditions Determine That There Has be Discrimination in Workplace
- Person must be disadvantaged in workplace in one or more types of discrimination
- The discriminator must have resulted in an action being taken that was adverse to the person
What are the types of discrimination?
*Race
*Colour
Skin colour
*Sex
Gender
*Sexual Preference
Sexual orientation
*Age
*Physical Mental disability
*Religion
*Pregnancy
What is Sexual Harassment?
Inappropriate unwelcome behavior of sexual nature
Explain 3 Criteria that determine occurrence of workplace bullying
- People behaved unreasonably to a worker a group of workers at work
- Bullying occurred repeatedly
- Bullying created health and safety risk
Describe a Piece a Legislation that Protects Workers from Bullying
The Brodie’s law is a piece of legislation the Victorian Government passed in 2011 to make serious bullying a crime punishable by up to tens years in jail
What is Summary Dismissal and Unfair Dismissal?
-Summary dismissal is the employer dismiss the employee without notice or warning because they believe the employee’s conduct is sufficiently serious
-Unfair dismissal dismissal is harsh, unjust and unreasonable that the employer has no proper reasons to dismiss them
List Three Reasons Why an Employee may Face a Summary Dismissal
Theft, fraud and violence that things they have done are sufficiently serious and not following the guidelines of health and safety procedure.
