Subjects:

Employment Law

Contents:

1. The Institutions of Employment Law

2. The Nature of a Contract of Employment

3. The Formation of a Contract of Employment

4. Discrimination in Employment

5. Equal Pay

6. Maternity, Paternity and Parental Rights

7. Employment Protection

8. Protection of Wages

9. Transfer of Undertakings

10. Performance of the Contract of Employment

11. Health and Safety at Work

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

20. Practice and Proceedure

21. Individual Trade Union Rights

22. The Law Relating to Trade Unions

23. Law Relating to Industrial Relations

Appendices

Index

• Tried, tested and trusted by thousands and generations of students, professionals and practitioners, and offering the largest coverage of case law and statutory materials on the market, this book is an essential purchase for anyone studying or working in the area of employment law
• The author, a Barrister at Law and former university lecturer, has over 40 years' experience of writing on employment law, and uses a particularly accessible style, making this text suitable for students of all levels
• This edition is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre which provides regular and thorough updates to the law so that readers are able to keep on top of this ever-changing subject
• The absence of any political or sociological bias leaves readers free to interpret the law and form their own judgments, and to explore the subject without restraint
• Covers every relevant area of employment law from both a collective and individual standpoint enabling it to be used on undergraduate and postgraduate law courses, and also in professional training, by professionals and by practitioners

New to this edition

• Updated to take into account the latest discrimination legislation, including the 2006 Age Discrimination Regulations
• More detail on TUPE - Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 and redundancy
• Updated to include the amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act and the forthcoming repeal of the statutory dismissal and disputes procedure
• Now in an attractive two-colour text design to help readers to navigate the text with ease

Selwyn's Law of Employment , now in its fifteenth edition, is the most popular and reliable textbook on employment law available. Written by a former university lecturer with over 40 years' experience, and covering the whole spectrum of employment law from both an individual and collective standpoint, this book presents the law in a particularly articulate, authoritative, and accessible way.

Thoroughly revised to take account of all the most recent changes in this ever-evolving area of law, this edition covers the latest legislative provisions, including new discrimination regulations and further coverage of TUPE and redundancy. To help reader navigation, 'key points' sections have been added at the start of each chapter, along with further sub-headings throughout the book.

Providing an unbeatably wide coverage of case law and statutory materials from the UK and European courts, Selwyn is essential reading for practitioners and students of employment law, along with those studying the law in a business or professional environment, or indeed anyone involved in giving employment law advice.