The Employment Contract Legal Principles, Drafting, and Interpretation [Hardcover]

The Employment Contractprovides a detailed analysis of the content of the employment contract. It explains the way in which the general principles of contract law operate in respect of the employment contract, discusses the significance of implied terms in interpreting the employment contract, and includes guidance on the drafting of effective employment contracts. Offering a balance between a reliable guide to the current law and an analysis of how the employment contract might develop, the book will be of equal interest to the practitioner and the academic.


1. Identifying the Contract of Employment
2. Continuity of Employment - The Common Law
3. Formation of the Contract
4. Implied Terms
5. Mutual Trust and Confidence
6. The Right to Wages
7. The Duty of Fidelity
8. Restrictive Covenants
9. Custom and Practice
10. Collective Agreements and Employment Contracts
11. Interpretation of Employment Contracts
12. Drafting of Employment Contracts
13. Variation of the Employment Contract

Dr. Douglas Brodieis currently Reader in Law at Edinburgh University, and his main research areas are in the area of labour law, including employment contracts, collective agreements, strike law, and the history of labour law in the United Kingdom. Dr Brodie also works as a consultant to two leading Edinburgh law firms: Mackay Simon and Simpson and Marwick.