RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Employability: Session 12
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OVERALL OUTCOME
LESSON OBJECTIVES
Understand both employee and employer rights and responsibilities.
GENDER LENS
Girls have different challenges from boys when entering the job market. The most common challenges for young women are: lower levels of education and skills, Childbearing and domestic/care responsibilities, lower self confidence, limited access to key assets (money, land…), gendered labour market segregation, limited mobility
Common barriers for young men are: Higher pressure to be breadwinner, perceptions of young men as idle or criminal, negative peer influences, armed recruitment and demobilization, insecurity and violence
During the sessions, it is important to adopt a gender lens. This means that you try to include gender topics where you see fit.
In discussions: you can add a question on the difference between men and women, boys and girls.
Participation: Make sure women also participate in activities and feel safe to voice their opinions during sessions.
Motivational speakers: make sure to invite female mentors and/or speakers so that girls in the course can relate to them
In sum, wherever you can, address issues that women face in particularly, such as harrasment, discrimination on the job market or in specific male-dominated sectors based on gender, ..
DIGITAL LENS
During the sessions, some activities aim at strengthening the participants’ digital skills, more specifically:
Adapted online activities for remote teaching: Some activities have been adapted so they can be facilitated online, using Skype, Zoom, Teams and Google Slides or Google Docs, or include embedded videos and online tools.
Digital peer support: Some activities can be done digitally whereby digitally more skilled or advanced students can be paired with a student who needs support when doing a digital activity.
TODAY’S ACTIVITIES
Warm up
discussion
Human
sentences
It’s none of the
boss’s business!
Rights and
responsibilities
pair-teach
Rights and
responsibilities
running dictation
Rights and
responsibilities memory
cards
Warm up
Warm up discussion
What did you put on your timeline?
Recap of last week’s session
Personal time management review
Some challenges you might face in the workplace might be more serious.
Today, we will talk about that
Warm up discussion
Personal time management review
What do you know about rights?
What are some examples of rights that people have?
Do men and women have the same rights?
Warm up discussion: search online
Personal time management review
Search online on the rights that employees have in your country!
You can use Google, for example, and use the key words “employees”, “rights” and “workplace” or your sector of preference
Human sentences
Human sentences
Instructions
A
B
C
Human sentences
Human sentences
A
B
C
Do you know other examples of rights?
Human sentences: discussion
Human sentences
What is a right?
Human sentences: last round
Human sentences
D
Instructions
Human sentences
Human sentences
Can you think of an
example of a right as something people are
allowed to do?
Can you think of an
example of a right as something people are
entitled to?
It’s none of your boss’s business!
It’s none of your boss’s business!
Just as there are rules all employees must follow, there are also rules that all employers must follow.
Some of these rules were created to prevent unfair discrimination against employees on grounds of religion, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, political opinions, lifestyle or age
It’s none of your boss’s business!
It’s none of your boss’s business!
Race
Age
Religion
Where an employee is from
Marital/family status (i.e. who the employee lives with)
Sexuality
Disabilities
Add a local or personal example you know, write a key word and tell the story
It’s none of your boss’s business!
It’s none of your boss’s business!
Legal
Not legal
Which one of the following questions are legal, and which ones are not legal to ask?
Explain why!
It’s none of your boss’s business! Digital activity
It’s none of your boss’s business!
Legal
Not legal
Which one of the following questions are legal, and which ones are not legal to ask?
Explain why!
It’s none of your boss’s business: discussion
It’s none of your boss’s business!
Which of these illegal questions would make them feel most uncomfortable and why?
How would you answer that question?
It’s none of your boss’s business: gender discussion
It’s none of your boss’s business!
Have any of the women/girls in class experienced inappropriate questions for an internship or during a job interview? How did that make you feel?
Rights and responsibilities running dictation
Rights and responsibilities running dictation
Which rights are all people guaranteed?
Think about in your context, which rights are you guaranteed and what are your responsibilities?
Rights and responsibilities running dictation
Rights and responsibilities running dictation
Instructions
Rights and responsibilities pair teach
Rights and responsibilities pair teach
Instructions
Memory cards
Memory cards
Instructions
Recap of Today
Activity!
Stand in a circle
Throw the ball to someone.
That person shares a right or responsibility they did not know about before this session
Key message of today
Remember, there are laws that govern how employers treat employees. These are rules created to prevent unfair discrimination against employees on the grounds of religion, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationality and political opinions.
An employer is generally forbidden to discriminate against an employee on these grounds. An employer’s interest in the above categories may be innocent. Or it may reveal a prejudice which the employer harbours. For example, the question about ‘where an employee is from’ may signify innocent curiosity. Or it may signal an attempt by the employer to discern your class, caste, religion or ethnicity – all of which are frequently related to your address.
Decline to answer politely and professionally but consider if it is a place you want to work. If any discrimination is occurring after you have been hired, talk to a trusted manager at the company, the human resources director, or if necessary a legal firm.
Questions?
Tip!
Let’s use whatsapp group(s) to ask or answer questions and share knowledge and resources!
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