Details
- Examines the law in detail as well as placing it in its wider context, including the relationship between UK and EU employment law, as well against the social, economic, and political background against which the law operates
- Provides a critical treatment of employment law, pointing out key areas for debate and development, while maintaining a concise, student-friendly format and style
- Features a separate chapter on human rights and its relationship to employment law
- Clearly explains complex areas of the law and includes diagrams and chapter summaries throughout to ensure student understanding
- Contains further reading suggestions and references throughout to support students embarking on essays and future research
- Features cross-references to Painter & Holmes, Cases and Materials 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
- Fully updated to include analysis of the Equality Act 2010
- Takes into account the Agency Workers Regulations
- Coverage of new legislation including that on the retirement age, flexible working and maternity leave rights
- Includes new cases relating to, for example, unfair dismissal, contracts of employment, discrimination law, part-time workers and human rights
- Includes recent ECJ decisions, including those regarding working time, part-time workers and the effect of EU law
Honeyball and Bowers' Textbook on Employment Law is an approach to employment law with strong critical analysis whilst placing it in its wider contexts, in a concise and user-friendly format.
Fully updated to take into account the recent significant developments in this area, including the Equality Act 2010, the key topics on most employment law courses are addressed in detail. An extremely clear writing style allows this text to remain accessible and student-focussed, while providing detailed explanations and analysis of the law. The text also includes diagrams and chapter summaries throughout to aid student understanding, while further reading suggestions assist with essay preparation and research.
Setting employment law in context, this book considers both industrial and collective issues as well as examining the increasing role of the EU in UK employment law. A separate chapter on human rights also enables students to understand the role human rights legislation plays in the development of employment law.
This book also contains cross referencing to Painter & Holmes' Cases & Materials on Employment Law, ensuring that these two texts continue to complement one another and provide the perfect combination of textbook analysis and the most up-to-date cases and materials.
This text is accompanied by a free Online Resource Centre (www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/orc/honeyball12e/) which contains updates to the law and useful weblinks.
Readership: Students studying employment/labour or industrial law as an option on the LLB or as part of postgraduate study. The book may also be useful for business students taking employment law as an option, or for those studying on CIPD and other HR training courses.
1: History and institutions of employment law
2: The concept of employment
3: The contract of employment
4: Termination of contract
5: Continuity of employment
6: Transfer of undertakings
7: Statutory employment protection on dismissal
8: Unfair dismissal
9: Statutory redundancy payments and consultation procedures
10: Non-contractual discrimination claims
11: Contractual discrimination and family rights
12: Statutory rights regulating the employment relationship
13: Trade unions
14: Collective bargaining
15: Industrial action
16: Human rights in employment
Simon Honeyball, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Exeter
Dr Simon Honeyball is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter. He has previously also held the post of Head of the Law School and has written extensively on employment law and other areas of the law.
Review(s) from previous edition
"Students will benefit from tapping into Simon Honeyball's experience and reflections on employment law over many years. Such intelligence is priceless to any serious student of the subject. - Stephen Hurley, Senior Lecturer in Employment Law, University of Greenwich Law School
"A welcome update of an old favourite. A very good introduction to the subject." - Christopher Gale, Professor of Law and Head of Department, Bradford University
"Very clear and well set out as well as being very up-to-date. An extremely impressive book." - Rachel Avery, Barrister (non practising) and Visiting Tutor, University of Durham
