Fair Treatment at Work Survey, 2008

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Fair Treatment at Work Survey is Britain's first large-scale official survey of employees' experience of unfair treatment, perceived discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment in the workplace. The survey was commissioned by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) which in June 2009 merged with the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) to form the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The new survey combines two earlier surveys; the Employment Rights at Work Survey, 2005 (ERWS) (not available from the UKDA) and the Fair Treatment at Work Pilot Survey, 2005-2006 (available from the UKDA under SN 6203).The main aims of the Fair Treatment at Work Survey, 2008 were:to assess people's general awareness of their rights at work and to see how this has changed since the last surveyto determine knowledge about specific rights at work (the National Minimum Wage and holiday entitlement) to find out which sources of advice people would use to find out about their rights at work in general and to find out about the National Minimum Wageto measure the proportion of individuals that has had problems at work in the last five yearsto determine how people go about resolving the most serious problems which they have had Main Topics:The main questionnaire covered the following broad areas:awareness of employment rightsknowledge of specific employment rightssources of information and adviceexperience of employment problemsresolving problems and disputesjob and employer characteristicssocio-demographics and other individual characteristicsThe self-completion questionnaire covered some additional areas: respondents' worktrustother employer-related behaviourfeelings about work