Employment Law

• An accessible introduction to employment law, with an extensive range of in-text signposting and clear explanations, to ensure the text meets the needs of people who have not previously studied law.
• Wide range of topic coverage that reflects the content of employment law modules for non-lawyers, including individual and collective aspects.
• Extensive material introduces the reader to the major debates about employment law and encourages critical understanding.
• Includes practical material on representing parties in employment tribunals, thereby equipping students with key skills that can be used in the workplace.

New to this edition

• All chapters have been revised and updated. There is new and updated coverage on immigration regulations and the related fines on employers; disability discrimination; age discrimination; the smoking ban and the implications of this; the law on bullying; future pension plans; and whistleblowing
• Recent changes are covered and upcoming reforms to employment law have been clearly highlighted within the text wherever possible

Readership: This text is designed for business and human resource management students, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Stephen Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University and CIPD National Examiner in Employment Law, and Astra Emir, Barrister-at-law, academic and Director of Legal Confidence Training

Part One: Foundations
1: The rise of employment law
2: Sources of employment law and institutions
3: Barriers to employment rights
Part Two: Discrimination Law
4: Introducing discrimination law
5: Principles of sex discrimination law
6: Issues in sex discrimination law
7: Equal pay
8: Race discrimination
9: Disability discrimination
10: Religious, sexual orientation, and age discrimination
11: Other areas of discrimination law
Part Three: The Contract of Employment Law
12: Unfair dismissal - reasons and remedies
13: Unfair dismissal - reasonableness
14: Redundancy
15: Contractual employment rights
16: Implied terms
17: Wrongful and constructive dismissal
Part Four: Health and Safety
18: Health and safety - the criminal law
19: Health and safety - the civil law
20: Working time
Part Five: Employment Policy and Practice
21: Wages and benefits
22: Family-friendly statutes
23: Privacy and confidentiality
24: TUPE
Part Six: Collective Employment Law
25: Freedom of association
26: Consultation and bargaining
27: Industrial action
Part Seven: Employment Law in Action
28: Employment tribunal procedure
29: Preparing and presenting a case