Work and Work Futures Part D

Question 1

Define Insurance

Answer 1

Guarantee of compensation, for future loss, damage, illness, death in return for a specific payment in the present,

Question 2

How has Covid 19 Pandemic Change Our Way of Working?

Answer 2

*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

Question 3

Define Enterprising

Answer 3

Demonstrating initiative and willingness to undertake new projects

Question 4

Define Employee

Answer 4

An individual hired to perform specific tasks in return for payment

Question 5

What are Soft Skills and Hard Skills

Answer 5

*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.

Question 6

Explain Why Soft Skills are more important than Hard Skills

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What is a modern award and an enterprise agreement

Answer 7

*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

Question 8

Define the Fair Work Commission

Answer 8

Australia’s National workplace relations tribunal, set minimum wages and working conditions and help with issues

Question 9

What is “Better Off Overall Test” When Approving Enterprise Agreements

Answer 9

Commission must be satisfied that each employee would be better overall under the enterprise agreement than if the relevant modern award applied

Question 10

Explain How an Employer and Employee May Engage With the Fair Work Commission

Answer 10

When agreements of wages and working conditions are made directly between employers and employee, agreements must be approved by the Fair Work Commission

Question 11

What Makes a Job Satisfying?

Answer 11

-Enjoyable
-Knowledge
-Pay
-Location
-hygiene
-safety

Question 12

Define Discrimination

Answer 12

treating a person differently from another person based on their personal characteristics

Question 13

What are 2 Conditions Determine That There Has be Discrimination in Workplace

Answer 13

1. Person must be disadvantaged in workplace in one or more types of discrimination
2. The discriminator must have resulted in an action being taken that was adverse to the person

Question 14

What are the types of discrimination?

Answer 14

*Race
*Colour
Skin colour
*Sex
Gender
*Sexual Preference
Sexual orientation
*Age
*Physical Mental disability
*Religion
*Pregnancy

Question 15

What is Sexual Harassment?

Answer 15

Inappropriate unwelcome behavior of sexual nature

Question 16

Explain 3 Criteria that determine occurrence of workplace bullying

Answer 16

1. People behaved unreasonably to a worker a group of workers at work
2. Bullying occurred repeatedly
3. Bullying created health and safety risk

Question 17

Describe a Piece a Legislation that Protects Workers from Bullying

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What is Summary Dismissal and Unfair Dismissal?

Answer 18

-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

Question 19

List Three Reasons Why an Employee may Face a Summary Dismissal

Answer 19

Theft, fraud and violence that things they have done are sufficiently serious and not following the guidelines of health and safety procedure.