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Abstract
This new edition of the successful handbook Employment Rights is fully updated and revised to include new material on all recent employment law. Employment Rights is a well-established text and reference point on all aspects of labour law – in particular those outside the legal profession.
Coverage is comprehensive and includes recruitment and selection; contracts (and changes to them); wages; discrimination; unfair dismissal and redundancy; health and safety; trade union rights; and work-related benefits.
This new edition has been expanded to include coverage of developments such as the Employment Act 2002, Tax Credits Act 2002, EC Employment, Social Policy, the European Convention of Human Rights; and reform of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Industrial Tribunals Act 1996.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | iii | ||
| Abbreviations | vi | ||
| Table of cases | viii | ||
| Table of EC, ECHR, and International Material | xxx | ||
| Codes of Practice | xxxiii | ||
| Table of Statutory Instruments, Directions, etc. | xxxiv | ||
| Table of Statutes | xl | ||
| Part One Introduction | 3 | ||
| 1 Employment Rights: Past, Present and Future | 3 | ||
| Part Two Individual Rights | 25 | ||
| 2 The Gateways to Employment Rights | 25 | ||
| 3 Job Applications and Recruitment | 53 | ||
| 4 The Contract of Employment | 66 | ||
| 5 Workplace Change | 92 | ||
| 6 Reductions in Work | 107 | ||
| 7 Pay | 111 | ||
| 8 Holidays, Working Hours and Absence from Work | 130 | ||
| 9 Conflicts of Interest, Competition and Confidentiality | 159 | ||
| Part Three Discrimination | 173 | ||
| 10 Equal Pay | 173 | ||
| 11 Race and Sex Discrimination | 200 | ||
| 12 Other Forms of Discrimination | 239 | ||
| Part Four Job Loss | 253 | ||
| 13 Terminating the Contract | 253 | ||
| 14 Unfair Dismissal | 275 | ||
| 15 Redundancy and Rights on Insolvency | 321 | ||
| Part Five Health and Safety | 361 | ||
| 16 Health, Safety and the Work Environment | 361 | ||
| Part Six Collective Rights | 381 | ||
| 17 Trade Unions and Their Members | 381 | ||
| 18 Collective Bargaining | 410 | ||
| 19 Industrial Conflict I: Industrial Action | 437 | ||
| 20 Industrial Conflict II: Picketing | 465 | ||
| Part Seven Legal Action and Welfare Benefits | 477 | ||
| 21 Tribunal and Court Claims | 477 | ||
| 22 Employment- related Welfare Benefits | 485 | ||
| Notes and References | 507 | ||
| Appendices Useful Organisations and Websites | 543 | ||
| Application to an Employment Tribunal | 547 | ||
| Index | 549 |