Subjects:

Employment Law

Contents:

1. Introduction The Importance of Contract Actions

2. Common Law and Statutory Claims

3. The Contract of Employment

4. Implied Terms in Contracts of Employment

5. Share Schemes and Pensions

6. Remedies for Breach of Contract Short of Dismissal

7. Termination of an Employment Contract

8. Summary Dismissal

9. Damages for Wrongful Dismissal

10. Enforcing a Contract of Employment

11. Settlements

12. The Scottish Dimension

Precedents

Index

This new text focuses on the law relating to wrongful dismissal in the context of a breach of the employment contract.Written by well known authors, the book covers all of the fundamental rules relating to the employment contract including discussion of express and implied terms and the rules concerning action for breach of contract.

It also examines liability and quantum in respect of compensation for wrongful dismissal.Adopting a practical approach, the book is an essential guide to the subject and offers case studies and precedents combined with authoritative analysis.

Reprinted with ISBN: 9781845927707