Living Law: Employment Law is about more than simply learning the legal principles. It's packed with innovative and interactive activities that will improve your understanding of the law and strengthen your legal writing, problem solving and research skills. It will help you see how employment law works in the real world, strengthen your legal skills, and show you how to apply your knowledge to problem scenarios.

Autorentext

Roger Welch, PhD, M.Phil, LLM, LLB was a Principal Lecturer in employment law at the University of Portsmouth where he is now a Visiting Research Fellow. He has written extensively on employment law matters - particularly on trade union rights and employment contracts in professional sport.

 

Caroline Strevens LLB is Head of School of Law at the University of Portsmouth. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was previously in practice as a solicitor. She has developed innovative units for the LL.B which include undergraduates training and working as Generalist Advisers with the local Citizens Advice Bureau.

Klappentext

Living Law: Employment Law is about more than helping students simply learn the legal principles. It is packed with innovative and interactive activities that will improve students' understanding of the law and strengthen their legal writing, problem solving and research skills. It will help them see how employment law works in the real world, strengthen their legal skills, and show them how to apply their knowledge to problem scenarios.

Zusammenfassung

Living Law: Employment Law is about more than simply learning the legal principles. It's packed with innovative and interactive activities that will improve your understanding of the law and strengthen your legal writing, problem solving and research skills. It will help you see how employment law works in the real world, strengthen your legal skills, and show you how to apply your knowledge to problem scenarios.

Inhalt

1. Introduction to Employment Law: The institutions and the people involved.

2. Nature, formation and sources of the contract of employment

3. Performance of the contract of employment

4. Common law termination of the contract of employment

5. Unfair dismissal

6. Redundancy and other economic dismissals

7. The law of discrimination

8. Trade unions, collective bargaining and the law

9. The legal regualtion of industrial action