Labour Law
Text and Materials
Published on 3. October 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
1050 pages
978-1-84113-236-5 (ISBN)
Description
An examination of the law relating to employment, industrial relations, and labour market regulation in the law of the United Kingdom, including relevant dimensions of EC law and policy. The text introduces selected extracts from cases, statutes, reports, official statistics, and academic commentary and analysis. The book is designed to provide all the materials needed for courses in labour law or employment law. The text emphasises recent developments including the expansion of legal regulation, new forms of work, the integration of labour law with broader policies aimed at the enhancement of competitiveness and the prevention of social exclusion, equal opportunities and the protection of rights in the workplace, and new mechanisms for worker participation in decisions. Chapters include: Introduction to Labour Law; The Employment Relation; Equality of Opportunity; Protecting the Work/Life Balance; Dismissal; Human Rights and Labour Law; Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation; Trade Unions and their Members; Changes in the Business.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 171 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84113-236-5 (9781841132365)
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Persons
Hugh Collins is Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics.
K.D. Ewing is Professor of Public Law, King's College, London.
Aileen McColgan is Professor of Human Rights Law at King's College, London.
K.D. Ewing is Professor of Public Law, King's College, London.
Aileen McColgan is Professor of Human Rights Law at King's College, London.
Content
Part 1 Introduction to labour law: what is labour law?; methods of regulation; labour courts and dispute settlement; transnational regulation; prospects for labour law; conclusion. Part 2 The employment relation: the contract of employment; the wage-work bargain; the organizational framework; collective agreements; authority and cooperation; information; the scope of employment regulation; public sector workers and public law; the adequacy of the contractual framework for employment. Part 3 Equality of opportunity: prohibited grounds of discrimination; direct discrimination; victimization; indirect discrimination; justifying discrimination; positive discrimination; prohibited discrimination; sex discrimination in pay and contractual terms - the EqPA; procedural and related issues. Part 4 Protecting the work/life balance: the regulation of working time; part-time workers; time-off rights; parental leave; minimum wage regulation; the national minimum wage; conclusion. Part 5 Dismissal: the common law of wrongful dismissal; statutory concept of dismissal; contracting out of statutory rights; fairness of dismissal; remedies for unfair dismissal; rights and reasonableness. Part 6 Human rights and labour law: the European Convention on Human Right; introduction to the Human Rights Act 1998; political activities and the Human Rights Act; workplace surveillance and the Human Rights Act; whistleblowing - freedom of expression in the workplace?. Part 7 Trade unions and their members: trade unions and citizenship; what are trade unions?; trade union structure and government; the election of trade union officers; trade union members' rights; disciplinary and expulsion procedures; the adjudication of disputes; conclusion. Part 8 Worker representation and trade union recognition: trade unions and collective bargaining; trade union membership and activities; trade union representation and the right to be accompanied; trade union recognition and collective bargaining; rights of recognized trade unions; other forms of workplace representation. Part 9 Industrial conflict and the right to strike: a fundamental right; the basis of legal liability; trade dispute - defining the legitimate boundaries of trade union action; restricting the boundaries of industrial action - secondary action and other restraints; procedural restraints - ballots and notices; picketing and demonstrations - reconciling conflicting freedoms; remedies and liability -injunctions, contempt and damages; sanctions against strikers - protected and unprotected action; industrial disputes and the role of the state; conclusion. Part 10 Restructuring the business: variation of jobs; workforce reductions; redeployment; insolvency; scales and the business; worker participation; controlling capital.