The Employment Contract: Legal Principles, Drafting, and Interpretation
Legal Principles, Drafting, and Interpretation
Published on 17. February 2005
Book
Hardback
266 pages
978-0-19-926966-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Employment Contract: Legal Principles, Drafting, and Interpretation provides a detailed analysis of the content of the employment contract. It explains the way in which the general principles of contract law operate in respect of the employment contract, discusses the significance of implied terms in interpreting the employment contract, and includes guidance on the drafting of effective employment contracts. Offering a balance between a reliable guide to the current law and an analysis of how the employment contract might develop, the book will be of equal interest to the practitioner and the academic.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-926966-2 (9780199269662)
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Person
Dr Douglas Brodie is currently Reader in Law at Edinburgh University, and his main research areas are in the area of labour law, including employment contracts, collective agreements, strike law, and the history of labour law in the United Kingdom. Dr Brodie also works as a consultant to a leading Edinburgh law firm: Simpson and Marwick.
Content
1. Identifying the Contract of Employment ; 2. Continuity of Employment: The Common Law ; 3. Formation of the Contract ; 4. Implied Terms ; 5. Mutual Trust and Confidence ; 6. The Right to Wages ; 7. The Duty of Fidelity ; 8. Restrictive Covenants ; 9. Custom and Practice ; 10. Collective Agreements and Employment Contracts ; 11. Interpretation of Employment Contracts ; 12. Analysis Applied: Drafting of Employment Contracts ; 13. Variation of the Employment Contract