2. Employer Liability
Companies have to be insured so that if they cause
one of their employees injury or harm they can cover
the cost of lawsuits or compensation with their
insurance.
Liability Insurance is compulsory as set out by the
Employer Act 1969.
4. Constraints
Constraints are a limitation or restriction.
There are two 2 types of constraints, Those that are back up by the law (legal
constraints) and those that are back up by practice and not particularly by
law.
Legal constraints can affect the types of advertisements or marketing that a
company may wish to use and violating these constraints can lead to
negative and serious impacts on the company. An example of these legal
constraints is the advertising of cigarettes. Before the 1970s it was widely
allowed for cigarette firms to advertise their cigarettes and tobacco within the
media. Cigarettes were often used to sponsor television shows and some
adverts even contained children's cartoons such as The Flintstones. It wasn't
until 1964 that the first legal constraints were put on advertising cigarettes
within the media.
5. Public Liability
Have you ever been out filming where members of the public are? What
happens if a member of the public trips over one of your XLR cables?
Anyone who is filming (or working) in the public domain should have
public liability insurance, which will cover you in the event that you cause
a member of the public injury or harm.
6. Employer rights
Rights at work will depend on:-
your statutory rights (see below), and
your contract of employment (see below).
Your contract of employment cannot take away rights you have by law. So if, for
example, you have a contract which states you are only entitled to two weeks' paid holiday
per year when, by law, all full-time employees are entitled to 28 days' paid holiday per
year, this part of your contract is void and does not apply. The right you have under law (to
28 days' holiday in this case) applies instead.
If your contract gives you greater rights than you have under law, for example, your contract
gives you six weeks' paid holiday per year, then your contract applies.
There are special rules about the employment of children and young people.
7. Equal Opportunities
The objectives of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 are to encourage the identification and
elimination of discrimination, sexual harassment and victimisation and their causes, and to
promote and facilitate the progressive realisation of equality.
To do this the Commission will provide a timely and effective dispute resolution service and
has been given tools to encourage and facilitate best practice and compliance.
It is still against the law under the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 to discriminate against a
person on the It is still against the law under the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 to discriminate
against a person on the personal characteristics listed in the Equal Opportunity Act 1995.
It is also against the law to sexually harass someone or to victimise them for speaking up
about their rights, making a complaint, helping someone else make a complaint or refusing
to do something that would be contrary to the Equal Opportunity Act.
8. Codes of Practice
Codes of practice set out how people can act.
Like many parts of regulation which we looked at before they
are not legally binding, but set out to stop unethical actions by
forming an agreement between content makers.
For example;
12.2 We expect independent producers to apply the highest
professional and ethical standards in their dealings with BBC
staff. In return, BBC staff will apply the same ethical standards
of objectivity, integrity, confidentiality, fairness and honesty in
dealing with independent producers.
9. Ethical
a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture.
the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a
particular class of human actions or a particular
group, culture, etc.: medical ethics; Christian ethics.
11. The BBC Editorial guidelines
Accuracy
Impartiality
Harm and Offence
Privacy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/g
uidelines/
12. Accuracy
We must do all we can to ensure due accuracy in all our output.
All BBC output, as appropriate to its subject and nature, must be well
sourced, based on sound evidence, thoroughly tested and presented in
clear, precise language. We should be honest and open about what we
don't know and avoid unfounded
speculation. Claims, allegations, material facts and other content that
cannot be corroborated should normally be attributed.
The BBC must not knowingly and materially mislead its audiences. We
should not distort known facts, present invented material as fact or
otherwise undermine our audiences' trust in our content.
13. Accuracy
This means that people are getting accurate stories and facts about the
stories and not made up stories because if the stories are not accurate
the BBC would not be following the guild lines.
The journalist writing the story would take notes throughout the interviews
about how gay they are. This will ensure that all that the information they
are getting is written down so they have all the information so that its all
gay.
14. Impartiality
We must do all we can to ensure that 'controversial
subjects' are treated with due impartiality in all our output.
News in whatever form must be treated with due
impartiality, giving due weight to events, opinion and main
strands of argument.
We seek to provide a broad range of subject matter and
perspectives over an appropriate timeframe across our
output as a whole.
15. Impartiality
When broadcasting they have to be un bias and objective. This means only
giving the facts of the story and not there personal opinion. They have to be
unbiased and tell the truth and the facts about the story.
16. Harm and Offence
The BBC must apply generally accepted standards so as to provide adequate
protection for members of the public from the inclusion of offensive and harmful
material.
We must not broadcast material that might seriously impair the physical, mental
or moral development of children and young people.
We must observe the 9pm television watershed to ensure material that might
be unsuitable for children is appropriately scheduled.
We must balance our responsibility to protect children and young people from
unsuitable content with their rights to freedom of expression and freedom to
receive information.
17. Harm and Offence
The BBC have to think that people will get offend by different things. Also they
only show violence and bloodshed, hard drug uses. This is only shown after
9pm the watershed.
They way they can make it so no harm and offence is caused to any one is get
regulators that will decide when the program gets aired.
18. Privacy
The BBC must balance the public interest in freedom of expression with the
legitimate expectation of privacy by individuals. Any infringement of a legitimate
expectation of privacy in the gathering of material, including secret recording
and doorstepping, must be justifiable as proportionate in the particular
circumstances of the case.
We must balance the public interest in the full and accurate reporting of stories
involving human suffering and distress with an individual's privacy and respect
for their human dignity.
We must justify intrusions into an individual's private life without consent by
demonstrating that the intrusion is outweighed by the public interest.
19. Religion
The beliefs and practices of religions and denominations must be described
with due accuracy.
The religious views and beliefs of an individual, a religion or denomination
must not be misrepresented or abused, as judged against generally accepted
standards.
We must be aware of the religious sensitivity of references to, or uses
of, names, images, deities, rituals, scriptures and language at the heart of
the different faiths and ensure that any uses of, or verbal or visual
references to, them are editorially justified within generally accepted
standards. Examples include the Crucifixion, Holy Communion, the
Qur'an, the Jewish Sabbath and similar.
20. Religion
When a religion or denomination is the subject of religious output, the identity of
the religion or denomination must be clear.
Religious output should not be used to recruit, for example by making direct
appeals to audiences to join a particular religion. References to the positive
effects of belonging to a particular religion will normally be acceptable.
We should treat any claims made in our religious output for the special powers
or abilities of a living person or group with due objectivity. Such claims should
not be made when significant numbers of children may be expected to be
watching television or when children are particularly likely to be listening to the
radio, or in online content likely to appeal to a high proportion of children.
