Labour Law Management Decisions and Workers' Rights

Labour Law - Management Decisions and Workers' Rights examines the subject of labour legislation as a form of regulation of management decisions. As with the previous editions, this fourth edition develops the student's understanding of labour relations and the law by showing how the contract of employment provides a foundation for British labour law and by illustrating how certain regulatory features of the legislative structure invite a balance to be struck by the judiciary with results that are not always in accord with legislative intentions.

1. - Introduction
2. - Setting the scene: UK Labour Legislation and the new EC Legal Order
3. - The Terms of Employment Contracts: Implied Terms
4. - The Terms of Employment Contracts: Express Terms
5. - Collective Agreements and Contracts of Employment
6. - Wrongful Dismissal: Remedies and Consequences for Statutory Claims
7. - The Coverage of Individual Employment Protection Legislation
8. - Wages and Hours Legislation
9. - Maternity Rights
10. - Unfair Dismissals
11. - Redundancy Decisions and the Law
12. - Reorganisation in the Context of Takeovers and Transfers
13. - Management Reorganisations and Workers' Rights: A Summary of the Current Position
14. - Sex Discrimination
15. - Equal Pay
16. - Rights of Association
17. - Legal Support for Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining and Employee Representation
18. - Management Decisions and Industrial Action

Steven D. Anderman BA, LLB, MSc, Birkett Long Professor of Law, University of Essex