Labor & Employment

This book explores the normative and legal evolution of the Social Dimension - labour law, social security law and family law - in both the EU and its Member States, during the last decade. It does this from a wide range of theoretical and...

This book offers a unique contribution that examines major recent changes in conflict, negotiation and regulation within the labour relations systems and related governance institutions of advanced societies. The broad scope of analysis includes social...

The International Labour Organization was created in 1919, as part of the Treaty of Versailles that ended the First World War, to reflect the belief that universal and lasting peace can be accomplished only if it is based on social justice. As the oldest...

This book provides practical, business-orientated and accessible guidance on key aspects of German employment and labour law as well as adjoining fields. This second, completely revised edition presents the latest changes in German labour and employment...

This monograph explores some of the conceptual questions which underpin the legal disputes which arise in relation to equality and discrimination. Among these are questions about the meaning of 'equality' as a legal concept and its relationship to the...

Well-selected and authoritative, Hart Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use. They are ideal for use in exams.Well-selected and authoritative, Hart Core Statutes provide the key...

Legal professionals are thought to have higher levels of mental health issues and lower levels of wellbeing than the general population. Drawing on qualitative data from new research with legal practitioners, this in-depth study of mental health and...

Modern Employment Law covers all aspects relating to the employment relationship between employer and employee at both individual and collective levels. All chapters are absorbing and exact, with nuanced topics such as unfair dismissal, discrimination...

The Palgrave Core Statutes series is designed to meet the needs of today's law students. Compiled by experienced lecturers, each title contains the essential materials needed at LLB level (and, where applicable, on GDL/CPE courses) and is easy to use...

Policy discussions play an important role in labour law, and labour lawyers draw on a wide range of disciplines and approaches in order to construct their arguments. This overview of the basic principles of labour law and the related policy arguments...

Fire Safety in Buildings: Questions and Answers is a concise practical handbook on fire safety legislation, duties and requirements, providing answers to common questions relating to a range of fire prevention, protection and management issues. For each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780414102514Author Dorothy DonovanFormat PaperbackImprint Round Hall LtdPublisher Round Hall Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912687138Author Philip HylandFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief Publishing

Institutional and Financial Incentives for Social Insurance provides both an empirical and a theoretical account of the main difficulties presently threatening social insurance systems in most industrialized countries. It analyzes the remedies that have...

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WHAT IF YOUR BOSS WAS AN ALGORITHM? The gig economy promises to revolutionise work as we know it, offering flexibility and independence instead of 9-to-5 drudgery. The potential benefits are enormous: consumers enjoy the convenience and affordability...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734544534Author Fraser HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Fraser HillPublisher Fraser HillWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

Are hierarchical arrangements in the workplace, including the employer-employee relationship, consistent with the ideal of relating to one another as moral equals? With this question at its core, this volume of essays by leading moral and political...

Every year, over a hundred thousand workers bring claims to an Employment Tribunal. The settling of disputes between employers and unions has been exchanged by many for individual litigation. In Struck Out, barrister David Renton gives a practical...

Most workers on temporary, zero hours and involuntary part-time contracts in the UK are women. Many are also carers. Yet employment law tends to exclude such women from family-friendly rights. Drawing on interviews with women in precarious work, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912687350Author Joseph EnglandFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Law Brief Publishing LtdPublisher Law Brief Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 159g

Taking as its starting point the authors' earlier work on Labour Legislation and Public Policy, this book provides a detailed account and critical analysis of British labour legislation and labour market regulation since the early 1990s. Referring back...

Stories of Care: A Labour of Law is an interdisciplinary study of the interactions of law and labour that shape paid care work. Based on the experiences of homecare workers, this highly topical text unpicks doctrinal assumptions about class and gender to...

This collection of essays presents an interdisciplinary investigation by lawyers and philosophers into the philosophical ideas, concepts, and principles that provide the foundation for the field of labour law and employment law. The book addresses the...

Promoting Equality and Diversity: A Practitioner's Guide explains the fundamental changes in the approach to achieving equality and diversity that are occurring as a result of recent legislation. The work takes a task based approach to the subject,...

The mismatch between goals and means is a major cause of crisis in labour law. The regulations that we use - the legal instruments and techniques - are no longer in sync with the goals they are supposed to advance. This mismatch leads to a problem of...

The Palgrave Core Statutes series is designed to meet the needs of today's law students. Compiled by experienced lecturers, each title contains the essential materials needed at LLB level (and, where applicable, on GDL/CPE courses) and is easy to use...

With the forces of globalization as a backdrop, this casebook develops labor and employment law in the context of the national laws of nine countries important to the global economy - the US, Canada, Mexico, UK, Germany, France, China, Japan and India...

Catholic Social Teaching and Labour Law explores the contribution that religious ethics makes to debates on justice in working life. Many faiths include beliefs about the significance of work to human development and the need for work to be performed...

In Putin's Labor Dilemma, Stephen Crowley investigates how the fear of labor protest has inhibited substantial economic transformation in Russia. Putin boasts he has the backing of workers in the country's industrial heartland, but as economic growth...

Key Facts is the essential series for anyone studying law, including LLB, ILEX and post-graduate conversion courses. Key Facts provides the simplest and most effective way for you to memorise and absorb the essential facts needed to pass your exams. Key...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913715250Author Tumbridge TumbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief PublishingWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781413329612Author Lisa GuerinFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint NOLOPublisher NOLOWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 178mm * 28mm

Apple orchards in bucolic Washington State. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment...

When discussing exploitation in workplaces, governments typically deploy a rhetoric of personal responsibility: they place attention on employers who take advantage of workers, or on workers who choose non-standard, precarious work arrangements. On this...

Covering all the key aspects of Employment Tribunal practice, this book focuses on the procedure from the point when the claim is presented, through the initial procedural steps up to and including the hearing and the consideration of reviews and appeals...

Whistleblowing has become a burning issue in contemporary society. When is whistleblowing appropriate? How is it best carried out? And how should managers and employers handle the issue? This book treats whistleblowing at work in a group of key...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732244788Author Scott HortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Modern Legal Media, LLCPublisher Modern Legal Media, LLCWeight(grams)...

The effects of COVID-19 are visited disproportionately on the already disadvantaged. This important text maps out ways in which those already disadvantaged have been affected by legal responses to COVID-19. Contributors tackle issues including virtual...

This monograph was originally developed as a direct response to the claim made by members of the 'Employers Group' at the 2012 International Labour Conference, namely that the right to strike is not protected in international law, and in particular by...