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Established and reliable, Selwyn's Law of Employment continues its legacy as a complete reference guide for students of employment law.
Astra Emir has maintained Norman Selwyn's practical approach to the subject, discussing the broad scope of each topic concisely and in an accessible manner, allowing space to reflect on developing issues in this fluid area of law.
The straightforward written style allows you to navigate the text with ease, and helps to identify legal principles and seminal cases quickly.
This textbook includes case law from the UK and EU, and both collective and individual employment law is considered, to offer an inclusive representation of the subject.
Digital formats and resourcesThe twenty-third edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.
The
online resources, available at www.oup.com/he/selwyn23e/, includes biannual updates to the law, blog posts about prominent employment law topics, and animated diagrams exploring complex legal processes.
List of contents
- Institutions and Sources
- 1: The institutions of employment law
- The Contract of Employment
- 2: The nature of a contract of employment
- 3: The formation of a contract of employment
- Equality and Family Friendly Rights
- 4: Equality in Employment
- 5: Equal Pay
- 6: Family Friendly Rights
- Protection at Work
- 7: Employment Protection
- 8: Protection of wages
- 9: Transfer of Undertakings
- 10: Performance of the Contract of Employment
- 11: Health and safety at work
- Discipline and Termination of a Contract
- 12: Disciplinary, dismissal and grievance procedures
- 13: Continuous employment
- 14: Normal working hours and a week's pay
- 15: Rights in Notice
- 16: Wrongful dismissal
- 17: Unfair dismissal
- 18: Redundancy
- 19: Duties of Ex-employees
- Practice
- 20: Practice and procedure
- Trade Unions
- 21: Individual trade union rights
- 22: The law relating to trade unions
- 23: Law relating to industrial relations - collective bargaining, statutory protection, picketing, etc
About the author
Astra Emir has been a practising barrister for many years, specialising in employment law, transport law and other areas. She also lectures and is an examiner for various institutions, is the co-author of
Employment Law: An Introduction (OUP 2019) among other publications, and is the founder of Legal Confidence training and blog.
