Labor & Employment

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)...

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...

Employment law has increasingly struggled to adapt to complex modern work arrangements, from agency work to corporate groups. This book suggests that the reason for this failure can be found in our concept of the employer, which has become riddled with...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911035879Author Nigel MackayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief Publishing

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403535746Author Jonas KnetschFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

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...

Learn the ins-and-outs of the law-for restaurant owners, catering services, pubs, bars, and more!The Law (In Plain English) (R) for Restaurants is a comprehensive guide to working in the food and beverage industry. It looks at the business of running a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913715083Author Forbes SolicitorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

To what extent is labour law an autonomous field of study? This book is based upon the papers written by a group of leading international scholars on this theme, delivered at a conference to mark Professor Mark Freedland's retirement from his teaching...

By exploring different approaches to the study of labour law, this book re-evaluates how it is conceived, analysed, and criticized in current legislation and policy. In particular, it assesses whether so-called 'old ways' of thinking about the subject,...

This book features essays by leading legal scholars on 'landmark' labour law cases from the mid-19th century to the present day. The essays are acutely sensitive to the historical and theoretical context of each case, and the volume provides original and...

A comprehensive and practical analysis of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004. The Regulations, which come into force on a rolling basis from spring 2005, represent a fundamental and complex change to employee relations in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913715380Author Benjimin BurgherFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403516868Author Jean-Michel ServaisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams)...

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...

How are national and international labour laws responding to the challenge of globalization as it re-shapes the workplaces of the world? This collection of essays by leading legal scholars and lawyers from Europe and the Americas was first published in...

This book addresses the questions of discrimination, vulnerable consumers, and financial inclusion in the light of the emerging legal, socioeconomic, and technological challenges. New technologies - such as artificial intelligence-driven consumer credit...

Across the world, workers labor without pay for the benefit of profitable businesses - and it's legal. Labor trends like outsourcing and technology hide some workers, and branding and employer mandates erase others. Invisible workers who remain...

This indispensable guide to employment tribunals has been completely updated and revised. It provides detailed coverage of the legal and procedural issues involved in bringing a case to an employment tribunal both from the claimant and respondent ...

The book considers the extent to which religious interests are protected in the workplace, with particular reference to the protection against religious discrimination provided by the Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations 2003. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911035947Author Harini IyengarFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief Publishing