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What are the main tenets of the European Convention on Human Rights? What is the Human Rights Act 1998? What are the implications for employers of art.8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence)? What are the implications of art.9 of the European Convention on Human Rights: the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion? What are the implications of art.10 of the European Convention on Human Rights: the right to freedom of expression? What are the implications of art.11 of the European Convention on Human Rights: the right to freedom of assembly and association? What are the implications of art.14 of the European Convention on Human Rights: the prohibition of discrimination? Can an employer prevent employees from political campaigning at the workplace in support of a particular political party? How should an employer deal with a complaint from an employee that a colleague is expressing political views that he or she finds offensive? Is an employer under an obligation to seek employees' permission before placing their photographs on its intranet? Where an employer has reason to believe that an employee absent on sick leave is working elsewhere can it arrange for covert surveillance? What are the anti-slavery provisions of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009? What kind of workers is the anti-slavery legislation intended to protect? Does the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 introduce new duties for employers that hire seasonal labour or migrant workers? What is forced or compulsory labour? What is servitude?
In accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights, the anti-slavery provisions of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 recognise that forced or compulsory labour may be necessary in certain circumstances to protect public safety and the rights of others. Work done in the course of lawful detention, military service, emergencies or life-threatening situations, and work or service that forms part of normal civic obligations is specifically excluded from amounting to forced labour.
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