Employment Law
Employee status, employment contracts, duties, dismissal, redundancy and workplace remedies.
How to study ACCA Applied Skills
Build on Applied Knowledge, use the correct UK law and tax versions, practise workplace-style digital responses and keep each independent 50% pass decision visible.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Employment status depends on the real working relationship and affects statutory protection, tax and organisational responsibility.
Exam cue: Establish employment status before applying employee-only rights.
Concept 2
Employer and employee duties arise from express terms, implied obligations and legislation.
Exam cue: Separate wrongful dismissal, unfair dismissal and redundancy.
Concept 3
Termination must be classified and assessed for reason, notice, procedure and available remedy.
Exam cue: Check both substantive reason and procedural fairness.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Letting the contract label decide status without examining reality.
Guardrail: Do not reuse a legal rule, tax amount, reporting format, audit phrase or finance formula without checking scope, date, units and evidence.
Confusing contractual notice claims with statutory unfair-dismissal claims.
Guardrail: Do not reuse a legal rule, tax amount, reporting format, audit phrase or finance formula without checking scope, date, units and evidence.
Assuming redundancy automatically makes a dismissal fair.
Guardrail: Do not reuse a legal rule, tax amount, reporting format, audit phrase or finance formula without checking scope, date, units and evidence.
Memory anchors
Employee
An employee works under a contract of service with the associated statutory protections.
Mutuality
Mutuality of obligation concerns the employer's duty to offer work and the worker's duty to perform it.
Wrongful Dismissal
Wrongful dismissal is a contractual claim usually concerning notice or another contract term.
Unfair Dismissal
Unfair dismissal tests statutory eligibility, reason and fairness of the employer's process.
Redundancy
Redundancy concerns reduced need for employees to perform work of a particular kind or at a place.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
A courier is labelled self-employed but works fixed hours under close control and cannot send a substitute. What matters most?
Which term is commonly implied into an employment contract for both parties?
Answer all questions to submit.
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