By Ian Smith and Gareth Thomas

Description

* Provides complete coverage for undergraduate and professional courses in employment law, labour law and employment relations law

* The new and improved structure aids study and increases the efficiency of learning

* Includes coverage of the standard disciplinary and grievance procedures, the new TUPE Regulations and the Age Discrimination Regulations

* Informed by a background of practical employment relations, this book is written by two authors experienced in working in the area and teaching undergraduates and employment practitioners

New to this edition

* New and improved structure maps closely onto courses in employment law

* Integrates the new standard procedures on discipline and grievance into the overall question of fair procedures, covering the first case law on this important development

* Includes coverage of the 2006 Transfer of Undertakings Regulations as a separate topic

* Provides coverage of the Age Discrimination Regulations within the overall framework of discrimination law

As the successor to Smith & Wood\\\\\\\'s Industrial Law , this work continues its predecessor\\\\\\\'s reputation for both comprehensive coverage and lucidity of presentation. With a new and improved structure and layout, the ninth edition maps closely onto employment law courses and provides an invaluable resource for students. Individual topics are presented in a logical framework, allowing students to analyse and understand what can initially appear to be an intimidatingly diverse and complex area of the law.

Thoroughly revised and updated and covering all the major developments in the subject since the eighth edition, it includes the standard disciplinary and grievance procedure, the 2006 Transfer of Undertakings, the new TUPE Regulations and age discrimination.

Online Resource Centre

A new Online Resource Centre providing twice-yearly updates to changes and developments in the law accompanies this book.

Readership: Second or third year LLB students studying employment law or those studying LLMs in employment and labour law. This text will also be of interest to business law and human resource (CIPD) students.

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Machinery and sources

3. Contracts of employment (1): definition and formation

4. Contracts of employment (2): content and continuity

5. Wages and hours

6. Discrimination in employment

7. Maternity and parental rights; flexible working

8. Contracts of employment (3): discharge at common law

9. Unfair dismissal

10. Redundancy rights and transfers of undertakings

11. Employment relations laws

12. The law on trade unions

13. Industrial action

Authors, editors, and contributors

Ian Smith, Barrister and Clifford Chance Professor of Employment Law, University of East Anglia and

Gareth Thomas, Head of the School of Law, University of East Anglia

Published Year: 2007 Format: Paper Back ISBN: 978-0-19-928729-1 Publisher: Oxford University Press No of Pages: 904 Our Price: £ 29.99 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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