Full Description
Employment Law in Context provides students with a complete guide to employment law. David Cabrelli combines extracts from leading cases and articles with insightful and sophisticated author commentary to provide the reader with a full, critical understanding of employment law. As well as providing a thorough grounding in individual labour law, and drawing attention to key and current areas of debate, this title offers the reader detailed analysis of thesocial, economic, political, and historical context in which employment law operates. An innovative running case study contextualizes employment law and demonstrates its practical applications by following the life-cycle of a company from incorporation, through expansion, to liquidation. Reflection points and examples encourage the development of critical thinking skills and students' ability to view the issues practically. Online resourcesThe text is supported by a range of extra resources, including:- Four supplementary chapters on collective employment law to facilitate a broader understanding of the subject - Additional reading lists to accompany topics signposted in each chapter and annotated web links to key online resources to direct further research- A flashcard glossary helps students test their understanding of terms highlighted and defined in the book- PowerPoint slides and figures from the book are available to lecturers
Contents
Part 11: Introduction to employment law2: Sources and institutions of employment lawPart 2: The Constitution of Employment and Personal Work Contracts3: The employment relationship and the contract of employment4: Alternative personal work contracts and relationsPart 3: The Content of the Personal Employment Contract5: The nature and content of the personal employment contract6: The implied terms of the personal employment contract7: The variation, suspension, and future of the personal employment contractPart 4: Statutory Employment Rights8: Pay and working time9: Work-life balancePart 5: Equality Law10: Introduction to employment equality law11: The protected characteristics12: Disability discrimination13: Part-time and fixed-term discrimination14: Equal pay lawPart 6: Common Law and Statutory Regulation of Dismissals15: Wrongful dismissal16: Introduction to unfair dismissal and substantive fairness17: Procedural fairness and remedies18: RedundancyPart 7: Business Reorganizations, Consultation and Insolvency19: Transfer of undertakings20: Collective redundanciesOnline Chapters: Collective Labour LawWeb chapter A: Information, consultation, participation and insolvencyWeb Chapter B: Introduction to trade unions, status, listing and independence and members' rights and protectionWeb Chapter C: Collective bargaining and the statutory recognition of trade unionsWeb Chapter D: Industrial action and statutory immunities
