Labour Law

Labour law is a highly dynamic and complex field which can be properly understood only in its broader international and historical context. This book €” increasingly cited as authoritative in the higher appellate courts €” provides a comprehensive analysis of current British labour law, which explains the role of different legal sources, as well as social and economic policy, in its development. The book thus enables readers to obtain a deeper insight into likely future changes, as well as past changes, in the law. The fifth edition, while following the broad pattern of previous editions, highlights important new developments in the areas of the contract of employment, discipline and dismissal, discrimination law, EU law, employee representation, human rights, 'work-life balance' policies, trade union law, and industrial action law. The book examines in detail the British law governing individual employment relations, with chapters covering the definition of the employment rela