Part 1: Key ideas

WALT: We Are Learning To identify employers, employees, rights and responsibilities in Aotearoa workplaces.

Success criteria: I can define employer and employee. I can identify at least three rights and three responsibilities. I can explain what makes work fair.

You may write, point, draw, use speech-to-text, or tell your teacher your answer.

café owner: ____________________    young worker: ____________________

safe equipment: ____________________    fair pay: ____________________

arriving on time: ____________________    following safety instructions: ____________________

treating others respectfully: ____________________    reporting a hazard: ____________________

Part 2: What makes work fair?

Read each scenario. You may use text-to-speech or ask your teacher to read it aloud.

Who is the employer? ____________________    Who is the employee? ____________________

Oral prompt: What could Maia say? Who should fix the problem?

Is this fair or unfair? Circle one and explain using the frame: “This is fair/unfair because…”

Right: ____________________    Responsibility: ____________________

Support: Use the words safe, fair pay, respect, breaks, agreement, report, ask, follow. You may draw your answer or tell your teacher.

Extension challenge: Compare the worker’s and manager’s responsibilities. Complete the frame: “Both are responsible for __________ because __________. However, the manager also needs to __________ because __________.”

Part 3: Exit check

Answer in words, pictures, or orally.

Teacher answer key — separate final page

1. Employer — B. Employee — D. Right — C. Responsibility — A.

2. Café owner: employer. Young worker: employee. Safe equipment: right. Fair pay: right. Arriving on time: responsibility. Following safety instructions: responsibility. Treating others respectfully: responsibility. Reporting a hazard: responsibility.

3. Accept suitable answers, such as safe equipment, fair pay, rest breaks or respectful treatment for a right; arriving on time, following safety instructions, treating others respectfully or reporting a hazard for a responsibility.

4. Employer: café owner. Employee: Maia.

5–6. Both safe equipment and reporting a hazard are relevant. A fair response is for Maia to stop using the unsafe machine and report it. The employer should remove or repair it, provide instructions and keep workers safe.

7–8. Unfair. Suitable answers include the right to respectful treatment and fair breaks, and the responsibility to speak up, report the problem or seek help. A fair next step could be talking to a trusted manager, teacher, support person or appropriate workplace contact.

9–12. Accept accurate, practical answers. The employer offers and manages the work. The employee does the work for agreed payment or another agreed arrangement. A fair workplace is safe, respectful and treats workers fairly.

Extension: Both workers and managers should follow safety rules and treat others respectfully. Managers also need to provide safe equipment, clear information and fair treatment.