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Question 1
It is age discrimination to retire someone on their 65th birthday and fill their post with a younger employee.

  a] True
  b] False

Question 2
In a conversation over lunch an employee complains to you that she is being bullied by her line manager. She expresses concern that taking any formal action would make things worse as the line manager frightens her and has already threatened her and her family; should you

  a] ignore the complaint because it isn’t in writing
  b] tell her to speak to her line manager herself
  c] treat it as a grievance
  d] ask her to fill in the company’s special grievance form

Question 3
If an employer sends letters to its staff warning of the consequences and effects on the business of equal pay claims, this could be victimisation?

  a] True
  b] False

Question 4
What is the national minimum wage for 16-17 years old after 1 October 2007?

  a] £3.00 per hour
  b] £3.30 per hour
  c] £3.40 per hour
  d] £3.50 per hour

Question 5
If an employee requests that a disciplinary hearing is adjourned because their chosen representative cannot attend, what is the maximum time the employee can ask for the meeting to be adjourned by?

  a] A calendar week
  b] 5 working days
  c] 10 days
  d] 2 weeks

Question 6
An employee who has suffered an injury at work and is off long term sick as a result cannot be dismissed fairly for capability.

  a] True
  b] False

Question 7
A company’s holiday policy states that an employee receives an extra 2 days holiday at the beginning of the next holiday year after they have been employed continuously for 5 years. Is this acceptable under the age discrimination regulations?

  a] Yes
  b] No

Question 8
Which of the following is correct? In a TUPE situation, if employees are members of the occupational pension scheme provided by the outgoing employer, the incoming employer:

  a] is not obliged to make any pension provision
  b] must make arrangements to allow the employee to continue in the former employer’s pension scheme
  c] must provide a pension scheme identical to the previous scheme; for example as to ‘final salary’, ‘money purchase’, level of contributions etc
  d] can offer the employees access to a stakeholder pension scheme with a maximum employer’s contribution of 6% of basic pay

Question 9
Which of the following is correct? In a TUPE situation, the outgoing employer must provide to the incoming employer, in respect of the transferring employees,

  a] details of their ages
  b] details of disciplinary warnings given in the last twelve months
  c] details of any Court claims brought by the employee in the last six years
  d] no information at all

Question 10
Which of the following is correct?


  a] If an employer fails to issue an employee with a Statement of principal Terms and Conditions of Employment, an Employment Tribunal can award the employee between two and four weeks’ pay
  b] If an employee is dismissed while on adoption leave the employer is obliged to issue him or her with a written statement of reasons for dismissal
  c] If the employer proposes to dismiss twenty employees as redundant on the same day he cannot issue dismissal notices until after the statutory thirty-day consultation period has elapsed
  d] An employer who only allows employees to have minimum statutory holiday must nevertheless allow employees to take Bank Holidays in addition to that minimum entitlement

Question 11
Which of the following is correct?

  a] Before dismissing an employee for redundancy the employer must set out, in writing, the full circumstances justifying the redundancy and send that to the employee
  b] An employer wishing to extend an employee’s probationary period due to poor performance must comply with the statutory dismissal and disciplinary procedures
  c] If an employee wishes to appeal against dismissal he or she must set out the grounds in writing and submit them to the employer
  d] An employer is only obliged to address an employee’s grievance if it is raised during the period of the employee’s employment

Question 12
Which of the following is correct? In the following circumstances an employee is entitled:

  a] to paid time off work to undertake training for alternative employment after having been given notice of dismissal for redundancy
  b] to paid time off to perform duties as a pension scheme trustee
  c] to unpaid time off to care for a grandparent who lives alone and who falls ill
  d] to unpaid time off to allow a father to attend the birth of his child

Question 13
Which of the following weeks do not count in the computation of a period of continuous employment?

  a] a week governed by a contract of employment
  b] a week where the employee is absent due to a temporary cessation of work
  c] a week during which the employee takes part in a strike
  d] a week working for the employer’s subsidiary company

Question 14
Which of the following terms is commonly implied into a contract of employment?

  a] the employee’s duty not to use or disclose the employer’s trade secrets or confidential information
  b] the employee’s right to contract out of the 48 hour working week
  c] post-termination restrictions
  d] provisions regarding disciplinary and grievance procedures

Question 15
A woman on maternity leave does not have

  a] in a redundancy situation, the right to be chosen for a suitable alternative job in preference to any other suitable candidate who is at risk of redundancy
  b] the right to return to the same job as before
  c] the right to return to work part-time
  d] the right to receive any incremental pay rise normally due during her period of leave

Question 16
An employee is dismissed on the spot after 2 months of a 3 month probationary period because they don’t fit in.

  a] the employee can claim breach of contract for failure to honour the probationary period
  b] the employee can claim unfair dismissal
  c] the employee can claim for failure to follow the statutory dismissal and disciplinary procedures
  d] the employee can claim breach of contract for failure to pay notice pay

Question 17
In terms of an Equal Pay claim, which of the following is correct?

  a] the comparator has to be a man
  b] the comparator can be hypothetical
  c] the comparator has to be in employment at the same time
  d] the comparator can be someone who was employed later

Question 18
An employer follows the Statutory Dismissal and Disciplinary Procedure but fails to follow all the requirements of his own contractual procedure. Which of the following is correct?

  a] the dismissal must be unfair
  b] the dismissal is automatically unfair
  c] the dismissal could still be fair
  d] the dismissal is null and void

Question 19
An employee has difficulty in writing and speaks to his employer about a grievance matter. The employer makes a note of the grievance. Which of the following is correct?

  a] the employee has not lodged a written statutory grievance
  b] the employee may have lodged a written statutory grievance
  c] the employee has lodged a written statutory grievance
  d] the employee is excused from putting his grievance in writing

Question 20
An employer and an employee enter into a compromise agreement where the employer pays £30k by way of compensation to the employee. Which of the following is correct?

  a] the first £30k must be tax free
  b] none of the £30k can be tax free
  c] up to £30k might be tax free
  d] only part of the £30k can be tax free

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