Details
- Provides students with easy access to useful extracts from cases, articles and relevant texts in a compact and accessible format
- Each extract is supported by insightful author commentary, notes and questions, helping students to engage critically with the materials and improving understanding
- The most regularly updated casebook on the market, ensuring that readers are kept up to date in this very fast-moving area of the law
- Contains a wide range of case extracts and statutes, along with non-statutory instruments and materials, to give students a balanced and thorough overview of employment law
- Annotated further reading lists ensure that students are able to find the right references for further research without difficulty
- Features cross-references to Honeyball & Bowers' Textbook on Employment Law, ensuring that these two texts provide the perfect employment law package of textbook analysis and the latest extracts from key cases and materials
New to this edition
- Discussion of the Coalition Government's recent proposals on the reform of employment law, particularly in relation to unfair dismissal, employment tribunals, transfer of undertakings, and strikes
- Full discussion of the Equality Act 2010 and its effect on UK employment law
- Incorporates the most recent statistics on trade union membership, levels of industrial action, the work of Acas, and employment tribunal claims
- Fully updated extracts relating to both European and domestic statute and case law
Cases and Materials on Employment Law is a complete reference resource for students of employment law. Well-established as the most regularly updated casebook on the market, the 9th edition continues to provide a wealth of carefully selected case law and stimulating extracts and materials to help explain employment law in a contextualised and thought-provoking manner.
Insightful author notes and questions accompany each extract, providing valuable additional detail to ensure students' understanding and encourage them to engage critically with the material.
The book contains cross referencing to Honeyball and Bowers' Textbook on Employment Law ensuring that these two titles continue to complement one another providing the perfect blend of textbook analysis and the most up-to-date cases and materials.
This book is also accompanied by a free online resource centre (www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/orc/painter_holmes9e/) which includes an additional chapter on health and safety at work as well as updates to the law and useful weblinks.
Readership: Students studying employment, labour, or industrial law as part of the LLB, GDL or on related courses. This book would also be suitable for postgraduate students pursuing research in this area.
1: Introduction to employment law
2: Defining the contract of employment and its continuity
3: Constructing the contract of employment
4: Equality law 1: equal pay
5: Equality law 2: discrimination in the workplace
6: Equality law 3: other forms of discrimination
7: Terminating the contract
8: Unfair dismissal
9: Redundancy
10: Trade unions and their members
11: Industrial conflict I
12: Industrial conflict II
Richard Painter, Emeritus Professor of Law, Staffordshire University and Senior Teaching Fellow in Employment Law, Keele University, and Ann Holmes, Professor of Law, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Wolverhampton
Richard W. Painter is Emeritus Professor of Law, Staffordshire University and Senior Teaching Fellow in Employment Law at Keele University.
Ann Holmes is Professor of Law and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wolverhampton.
Review(s) from previous edition
"The most well-established and reliable cases and materials book in the field. Known for its relevant and thorough selection. - Jeffrey Kenner, Professor of Law, University of Nottingham
"There is sufficient flair and clarity in the style to make the reader feel at ease. Students should feel that what they are about to read will be at once instructive and rewarding as well as manageable and user-friendly." - Michael O'Sullivan, Visiting Lecturer and Barrister, Brunel University
"An excellent book which provides good detail of the cases involved in the subject. Well referenced and easy to follow." - Pat Feast, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Portsmouth
