Employment Law [Hardcover]

This updated edition offers a fresh approach to the law governing employment relations, emphasizing the contemporary policy themes of social inclusion, competitiveness, and the rights of citizenship in the workplace. It acts as a succinct and accessible overview for those new to the subject as well as an excellent summary for students.

Employment Lawcovers all the main areas of the subject including contracts of employment, anti-discrimination law, trade unions, industrial action, and human rights in the workplace. It also discusses how UK law, under the influence of EU law and international protection of human rights, has been transformed for the twentieth-first century by pursuing new goals such as helping to achieve a better balance between work and life, to improve the competitiveness of business through partnership institutions, and to provide superior protection for the basic rights of employees in the workplace. Offering frequent comparisons with the law of other countries, including the United States, the book also discusses the effectiveness of employment regulation as well as examining the different national and transnational methods available.

Part I: Aims and Techniques of Employment Law
1. 'Labour is not a Commodity'
2. Regulating the Workplace
Part II: Social Inclusion
3. Opportunity and Discrimination
4. Work and Life
Part III: Competitiveness
5. Co-operation
6. Partnership
7. Competition and Industrial Action
8. Discipline and Dismissal
9. Economic Security
Part IV: Citizenship
10. Civil Liberties at Work
11. Social Rights
12. Shelf-life

Professor Hugh Collinsstudied law at Oxford University and Harvard Law School. He taught law at Brasenose College, Oxford, before moving in 1991 to the London School of Economics to the chair in English Law. He has previous books include the first edition ofl£#