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The absolute package for students of employment law, this rigorous treatment - which includes extracts from key cases and source materials - uses a running case study to contextualize the law and actively encourages critical thinking.
List of contents
- Part 1: Introduction and Sources and Institutions of Employment Law
- 1: Introduction to employment law
- 2: Sources and institutions of employment law
- Part 2: The Constitution of Employment and Personal Work Contracts
- 3: The employment relationship and the contract of employment
- 4: Alternative personal work contracts and relations
- Part 3: The Content of the Personal Employment Contract
- 5: The nature and content of the personal employment contract
- 6: The implied terms of the personal employment contract
- 7: The variation and suspension of the personal employment contract
- Part 4: Statutory Employment Rights
- 8: Pay and working time
- 9: Work-life balance
- Part 5: Equality Law
- 10: Introduction to employment equality law
- 11: The protected characteristics
- 12: Disability discrimination
- 13: Part-time and fixed-term work
- 14: Equal pay law
- Part 6: Common Law and Statutory Regulation of Dismissals
- 15: Wrongful dismissal
- 16: Introduction to unfair dismissal and substantive fairness
- 17: Procedural fairness and remedies
- 18: Redundancy
- Part 7: Business Reorganizations, Consultation, and Insolvency
- 19: Transfer of undertakings
- 20: Collective redundancies
- Online Chapters: Collective Labour Law
- Web chapter A: Information, consultation, participation, and insolvency
- Web Chapter B: Introduction to trade unions, status, listing, and independence, and members' rights and protection
- Web Chapter C: Recognition of trade unions, collective bargaining, and industrial democracy
- Web Chapter D: Industrial action and statutory immunities
About the author
David Cabrelli joined Edinburgh Law School in June 2007, and has lectured and taught employment and labour law for over seventeen years. Prior to that, he was in legal practice for six years, specializing in employment, commercial and corporate law.
David's research interests lie in the field of labour law, particularly the common law, and statutory regulation of the contract of employment. He has published papers in a number of leading academic journals in the field of labour law, and his research has been cited by the UK Supreme Court, The Hong Kong High Court, the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of South Australia, the Scottish Law Commission and the Law Commission.
Summary
The absolute package for students of employment law, this rigorous treatment - which includes extracts from key cases and source materials - uses a running case study to contextualize the law and actively encourages critical thinking.
Additional text
Offers undergraduate law students a holistic and transferrable account of employment law.
