3B- Employment legislation and Employee rights

There are many different health and safety issues and regulations in many different T.V industries and companies. The main TV Company I am going to look through is the BBC looking at their health and safety policy. There are many different sections that the health and safety fall under. The first one talks about reporting:

Accident/incident reporting

Under this heading it gives the reader all the explications on how to report in an accident. The person that has had an injury should contact the BBC ORM straight away so a report can be written.

The serious accidents our;

-‘A member of the public taken to hospital as a result of BBC work activities’

-‘An absence from work of more than three days due to a work-related accident’

-‘Fractures, dislocations or amputations’;

-‘Loss of sight or eye damage’

Contractors in production;
This topic in the health and saftey guide 

 And many others, safety for their cast and crew is very important knowing that the BBC will help them and understand their situation. Another healthy and safety policy is freelancers.

The BBC explains that freelances are usually not up-to-date or aware of the BBC’s health and safety policies, saying that if they are leading groups and talking and teaching cast and crew they should have their knowledge about health and safety. This information is important for the people in the industry because they know what kind of injury they have to report, what injures they can get there company involved with.

There are many equal opportunities in the BBC, the BBC explain that the more diverse the workforce the better they are able to connect with an audience.  The main polices they have for their workforce are, to create a working environment that will help everyone and will help the crew feel comfortable when working. Having the right equipment for workers who are disabled or need other working areas.
They value and respect all of their crew and the work they put in to crate the BBC, and make sure they are treated fair within the workspace and not a group or an individual is unlawfully disadvantaged.
When looking in more detail of the different equal opportunities in the BBC they focus on many different areas of there crew like religion and disability. Giving different information about how much of the workforce is a certain religion or has a certain disability and explaining  what they do to make the workplace fair and right for every cast and crew member. 

BBC have different rules and equality polices up on there website that change every month, this is to make sure the regulations are up to date with the different workers, its also there to fit with the differnet changers within the tv and film indusrty, and the changes in the company itself.

This law was brought into the uk to stop discrimination of different age groups, it came into force on the 1st of october 2006. This is uselful for workers in different companys to have this law to have a good chance at a job then someone older or younger then themself . It also stops other workers excluding workers from different jobs or different postions in the company because of them being too young or old.

The emplyment rights in the BBC are the same as otheres in other companies, everyone in the workspace showul be treated farlie without them being discrimnated for there colour, race, gender and so on. Workers should be given the right pay when working, above minumin wage which. They should be treated wiht respect when in the workplace, and be given breakes when needed, which is at certin point at work for different types of jobs and workers.

The Trade union i started looking into was BECTU which is a trade union media and entertainment. Belonging to a trade union there are many advantages for exmaple if anything goes wrong withing your worplace that you dont like or find unfair you can go to the trade union, they can help you when in situations like money or being treated unfarlie at a workplace. There are many different trade unions for different jobs, thses are important because they are seen as a voice to mant workers that are getten treated unfairly in there chosen jobs. Trade unions can stop this by starting strikes for the jobs the voice for.
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Intellectual property is a concept refers from creations of the mind for which exclusive rights are recgonised this means the owners are granted certin rights, this is different then copyright this is because copyright is when you use someone elses work, for example if a famous artist creates a song, no one else can use this song without the pimmison of the artist. Intellectual property is different, this is when that the certin thing that has been created like a new discovery, the owner has certin rights but it still can be used by certin people. Each type of protection has its advantages, using copyright stops people from taking your idea and making in there own and putting it in other peoples work. Trademarks seprate themself from other brands, a lable showing this trademark can be found on lables and packaging. copyright can be put in use when you create a peice like a song, when this song is copyrighted then no one without your permmison can use this song, if they do there peice can be taken down and can be finned. Trademarks can be used on different logos, for example the nick tick has got a small R to show that it is trademarked meaning no one can use the logo shown.