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Appendix 1: Description of sample 171Appendix 2: Regression methodology and results 177Appendix 3: On-call working 194Appendix 4: List of acronyms 201Bibliography 202vii
List of Tables and ChartsTable 2.1: How well informed respondents feel about their rights at work 20Figure 2.1: How well informed respondents feel about their rights at work:2005 survey compared to 2001 survey 21Figure 2.2: Whether respondents know as much as they need to knowabout their rights at work, or could do with knowing more 25Table 2.2: Whether respondents would know where to find outinformation about their rights at work if they needed to 26Figure 2.3: Awareness of employers’ legal obligations: proportion ofrespondents who think employers have to do this according tolaw 28Table 2.3: Awareness of rights in the area of children and dependants 34Table 2.4:How much respondents said they know about the detail of thelaw of the rights that they were aware of 36Figure 2.4: Awareness deficits 40Table 2.5: Awareness score 42Figure 3.1: Estimate of the weekly working time limit 51Table 3.1: Estimates of the weekly working time limit 51Table 3.2: Opting out of the working time limit 54Table 3.3: Estimates of minimum holiday entitlement 56Table 3.4: Is there a legal entitlement to public holidays on top of theminimum leave entitlement? 58Figure 3.2: Entitlement to days off over a 14-day period 59Figure 3.3: Number of hours before rest break 60Table 3.5: Proportions giving correct responses to days off in 14-dayperiod and rest breaks questions 60Figure 3.4: Which groups are covered by the NMW? 63Table 3.6:Which groups are covered by the NMW? (percentage sayingyes) 64Table 3.7: Is the NMW the same for different age groups? 66Figure 3.5: How much is the NMW for each age group? 67viii
Page 5 and 6: AcknowledgementsThis research was c
Page 7: 4.3 Types of problems experienced 1
Page 12: Figure 5.2: Where respondents would
Page 15 and 16: including work and parents, and dis
Page 17 and 18: those aged 65 and over the average
Page 19 and 20: all respondents (21 per cent) said
Page 21 and 22: • to find out the main sources of
Page 23 and 24: • A variety of telephone help-lin
Page 25 and 26: unaware of what was available to th
Page 27 and 28: which the survey covered. These exe
Page 30 and 31: 1.4 Comparisons with the first benc
Page 32 and 33: 2Awareness ofemployment rightsThis
Page 34 and 35: Figure 2.1: How well informed respo
Page 36 and 37: • being a trade union/staff assoc
Page 38 and 39: Figure 2.2: Whether respondents kno
Page 40 and 41: 2.4 Awareness of employers’ legal
Page 42 and 43: 2.4.1 DiscriminationThe Sex Discrim
Page 44 and 45: minimum number of weeks paid holida
Page 46 and 47: This fairly high awareness may refl
Page 48 and 49: Ordinary maternity leave: 88 per ce
Page 50 and 51: While respondents may be aware of t
Page 52 and 53: dependent children, had children un
Page 54 and 55: It is important to note that rights
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2.8 Summary2.8.1 How well informed
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• 51 per cent of respondents were
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3Knowledge of specificemployment ri
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Figure 3.1: Estimate of the weekly
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Table 3.1 shows respondents who got
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Table 3.2: continuedHow well inform
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The median number of weeks cited by
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3.2.4 Days off in a 14-day period a
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Table 3.5: continuedEntitled to 2 d
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Figure 3.4: Which groups are covere
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Table 3.6 shows that:• A small pr
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experienced a problem in relation t
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Table 3.8: continuedWhether member
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Table 3.9 shows that respondents wh
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who had experienced a problem compa
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Table 3.11: continuedWhether experi
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Table 3.12 shows that 62 per cent o
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Respondents were asked about a moth
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3.5.1 At what point employees are l
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Table 3.16: continuedNMW: Anti-disc
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had the right to be accompanied was
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that deals with employment disputes
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3.6 Knowledge scoresPrevious sectio
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Table 3.19: continuedWhether member
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Almost half of respondents (49 per
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• When asked who could accompany
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• the number of hours or days you
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Table 4.1: continuedYes NoUnweighte
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• being older by one year, ie if
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Table 4.2 isolates all those who ha
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Figure 4.2 below lists the areas in
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Table 4.3: Whether advice/informati
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Figure 4.4: Advice or information s
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Consultation with a colleague at wo
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• Of those who found all that the
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• the employer was not willing to
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cent of all respondents, leaving th
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4.8.6 What respondent wishes they h
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Steps taken to resolve the problem
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Sixty per cent of respondents in em
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Figure 4.10: Which problem do you t
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Table 4.9: continuedNumber of emplo
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4.10 Summary4.10.1 Experiencing a p
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problem. Almost two-thirds (63 per
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5Finding information andadviceThis
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When examining where respondents wo
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not trade union/staff association m
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‘And who do you think should be m
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information services were thought t
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Respondents were very evenly divide
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website/the Internet, 14 per cent w
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6Key findings byemployment rightThi
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• 30 per cent knew hardly anythin
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• Only two per cent of respondent
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• Eight per cent of respondents s
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• An ‘awareness deficit’ was
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an employee knew about the detail o
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• An ‘awareness deficit’ was
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• One per cent of respondents sai
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6.4.6 Age discrimination (legislati
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• sex discrimination law• unfai
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7.2 Which groups are most (and leas
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Groups emerge from the bivariate an
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8Appendix 1:Description of sampleIn
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Table A1.2: Family and household ch
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Table A1.4: Characteristics of resp
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Appendix 2: Regressionmethodology a
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qualifications etc.). The co-effici
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Table A2.1: General awareness, clas
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Table A2.2: continuedIndependent va
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department. 48 The following sub-se
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Table A2.5: continuedIndependent va
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Table A2.6: continuedCollinearity s
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8.1.14 Additional variables that we
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Table A2.9: Resolved satisfactorily
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Figure A3.1: Average number of hour
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Female 10 90 564Earnings Under £15
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Figure A3.4: Frequency of on-callEv
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10Appendix 4: List ofacronymsAcasBM
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The DTI EmploymentRelations Researc
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