A Practical Approach to Employment Law

Formerly known as Bowers on Employment Law this new edition provides a clear and practical guide to all aspects of individual and collective employment law as it operates in practice. The seventh edition brings the book fully up to date with recent legislation (such as the Employment Relations Act 2004) and case law and includes analysis of the Human Rights Act in the employment sphere.

1: History; 2: The Status of Employee; 3: The Individual Contract of Employment and its Sources; 4: Rights and Obligations of Employer and Employee; 5: Statutory Regulation of Wages and Hours; 6: The Duty of Fidelity and Restraint of Trade Clauses; 7: Equal Pay; 8: Discrimination; 9: Maternity, Parental and Domestic Care Rights, and Flexible Working; 10: Continuity of Employment; 11: The Scope of Statutory Protection: Unfair Dismissal and Redundancy; 12: Termination of Contract and Wrongful Dismissal; 13: Unfair Dismissal; 14: Redundancy Payments; 15: Redundancy Consultation; 16: Transfer of Undertakings; 17: Trade Unions; 18: The Union and its Members; 19: Collective Bargaining and Trade Union Recognition; 20: Protection of Trade Union and Cognate Activities; 21: Strikes and Other Industrial Action; 22: Picketing; 23: The Human Rights Act; Appendices