Details
- A brand new up-to-date text that combines sophisticated author commentary with carefully chosen extracts from employment law cases and materials. The book covers key cases in depth, enabling the reader to engage critically with judgments, issues, and policies.
- Takes a thorough and detailed approach to individual labour law, with chapters on collective labour law available online, providing a comprehensive and reliable guide to this dynamic subject.
- The highly contextual format outlines the social, economic, political, and historical context in which employment law operates, enabling the reader to understand the key and current debates in the subject.
- An engaging running case study demonstrates the practical applications of the law by following the life-cycle of a company from incorporation, through expansion, to insolvency.
- Extensive use of in-chapter reflection points encourages critical engagement with the issues at stake and provides points for discussion in seminars.
- Further reading suggestions are woven throughout the text to provide targeted opportunities for additional research, enabling the reader to gain a rounded understanding of employment law.
Employment Law in Context 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, this title offers the reader detailed analysis of the social, economic, political, and historical context in which employment law operates, drawing attention to key and current areas of debate.
An innovative running case study contextualises employment law and demonstrates its practical applications by following the life-cycle of a company from incorporation, through expansion, to liquidation. Numerous reflection points and further reading suggestions are woven throughout the text to support the development of critical thinking skills.
PART 1: INTRODUCTION AND SOURCES AND INSTITUTIONS OF EMPLOYMENT LAW
1: Introduction to employment law
2: Sources and institutions of employment law
PART II: THE CONSTITUTION OF EMPLOYMENT AND PERSONAL WORK CONTRACTS
3: The employment relationship and the contract of employment: status and formation
4: Alternative personal work contracts and relations
PART III: THE CONTENT OF THE PERSONAL EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT
5: The nature and content of the contract of employment
6: The implied terms of the contract of employment
7: The variation, suspension and future of the contract of employment
PART IV: STATUTORY EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS
8: Pay and working time
9: Work/life balance
PART V: EQUALITY LAW
10: introduction to employment equality law: direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation
11: The protected characteristics of equality law
12: Disability discrimination
13: Part-time and fixed-term work
14: Equal pay law
PART VI: COMMON LAW AND STATUTORY REGULATION OF DISMISSALS
15: Wrongful dismissal
16: Unfair dismissal
17: Procedural fairness and remedies
18: Redundancy
PART VIII: BUSINESS REORGANISATIONS, CONSULTATION AND INSOLVENCY
19: Transfer of undertakings
20: Collective redundancies
21: Information, consultation, participation and insolvency
Part VIII: COLLECTIVE LABOUR LAW
Web chapter A: Introduction to trade unions, status, listing and independence and members' rights and protection
Web chapter B: Recognition of trade unions, collective bargaining and industrial democracy
Web chapter C: Industrial action and statutory immunities
David Cabrelli joined Edinburgh Law School in June 2007 having previously lectured at the University of Dundee. Prior to that, he was in legal practice for six years, specialising in commercial and corporate law. David's research interests lie in the field of labour law, particularly the common law, and statutory regulation, of the contract of employment. He has published papers in a number of leading academic journals in the field of labour law, and his labour law research has been cited by the UK Supreme Court, The Hong Kong High Court and the Supreme Court of Australia.
"Cabrelli's new book places an evaluation of current employment law, including controversial new developments, squarely within its social and political context. " - Jenny Gibbons, York Law School
"Employment Law in Context is occupying vital territory in being sophisticated and comprehensive without being unwieldy for students." - Prof Alan Bogg, University of Oxford
"Employment Law in Context will engage students better than most of its competitors... the case study really will assist in conceptualizing issues." - Prof Alice Belcher, University of Dundee
