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Curriculum Overview KS3
Subject:
Business Studies
Overview effective from[date
]:
September 2017
3.2.5 Legislation
Specification
content
Learning objectives
Additional guidance
Suggested
timing
(hours)
Learning activities and resources
Employment law
To assess the impact of
employment legislation
on businesses.
To understand the
consequences of failing
to follow legislation for
the business.
Impacts of legislation
on the business include
costs, training needs,
recruitment
requirements.
Employment law
including:
national minimum
wage/living wage
the Equality Act
(2010).
1
Reference and final test –
BBC Bitesize webpage on employment
rights
Reference –
Tutor2u webpage on business and legislation
Research task – students to find out the minimum wage for each age
group and the living wage.
Gov.uk webpage on national minimum and living wage rates
BBC article on cost of National Living Wage to businesses
Video on the Equality Act
Teacher led explanation on the failure to follow legislation –
BBC
article on dyslexia discrimination case
or
BBC article on cancer
patients discrimination
Health and Safety
law
Consumer law
To assess the impact of
health and safety and
consumer legislation on
businesses.
To understand the
benefits of providing a
safe working
environment.
Impacts of legislation
on the business include
costs, training needs,
recruitment
requirements.
Health and safety law
including: the Health
and Safety at Work Act
(1974).
Consumer law
including trade
descriptions.
1
Starter – show
health and safety video
– why do businesses worry
about health and safety at work?
Handout on the main consumer laws businesses have to abide by.
Show
consumer rights video
Students create simple role plays to illustrate consumer laws being
broken – the rest of the class has to guess which law has been
broken.
Students to create a spider diagram of the main impacts of health and
safety and consumer laws on businesses.
Complete question 3b) 5 marks Paper 1 June 2015.