Essentials of employment law:
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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London
Inst. of Personnel Management
1994
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| Ausgabe: | 4. ed. |
| Links: | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=016860153&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| Umfang: | XXXVI, 327 S. |
| ISBN: | 0852925360 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface and acknowledgements xi
Abbreviations xiii
List of cases cited xvii
1 The sources and institutions of employment law 1
Civil and criminal law 1
Legislation and codes of practice 2
The common law and the court hierarchy 4
The key institutions 6
Industrial tribunals 6
The Employment Appeal Tribunal 8
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service 9
The Central Arbitration Committee 11
The Certification Officer 12
The Commissioner for the Rights of Trade
Union Members 13
The Commissioner for Protection against
Unlawful Industrial Action 13
2 Formation of the contract of employment (1) The
sources of contractual terms 15
Express terms and statutory statements 16
Collective agreements 22
Works rules , 24
Custom and practice 24
Terms implied by statute 25
Terms implied by the common law 25
3 Formation of the contract of employment (2) Implied
terms of law 28
Duties of the employer 28
To pay wages 28
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To provide work 31
To co-operate with the employee 31
To take reasonable care of the employee 32
Duties of the employee 37
To co-operate with the employer 37
Fidelity 38
To take reasonable care 43
4 Recruitment and selection 46
Some policy considerations 46
Employees or independent contractors? 46
Fixed-term or indefinite contract 49
Temporary or part-time employees? 50
Should a probationary period be imposed? 50
General legislative constraints 51
Discrimination on the grounds of union
membership or non-membership 51
The Disabled Persons (Employment) Acts 1944
and 1958 53
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 53
Women and young persons 54
5 Discrimination against employees on the grounds of
sex or race 56
The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Race
Relations Act 1976 56
The Equal Pay Act 1970 (as amended) 70
6 Maternity rights 82
Tune off for antenatal care 82
Suspension from work on maternity grounds 83
Dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy or maternity 83
The right to maternity leave 85
Statutory maternity pay 91
7 Health and safety at work 95
The employer s general duties towards employees 96
Safety representatives and safety committees 100
Other general duties 103
Articles and substances for use at work 105
Contents vii
Articles 105
Substances 107
The notification of accidents, etc. Ill
The 1992 regulations 112
Offences 112
Enforcing the Act 113
8 Statutory sick pay and suspension on medical grounds 121
Statutory sick pay 121
The qualifying conditions and limitations on
entitlement 121
Notification of sickness absence and proof of
incapacity 125
The amounts payable and recoverable by employers 126
Enforcing the right to SSP 126
The duty to keep records 128
Penalties 128
Suspension on medical grounds 129
9 Time off work owing to lay-off, short time and public
duties 132
The implications of lay-off and short-time working 132
Guarantee payments 132
Redundancy payments 134
Tune off for public duties 135
10 Variation, breach and termination of the contract of
employment at common law 138
Variation 138
Breach of contract 139
Automatic termination: frustration 141
Termination without notice: summary dismissal 142
Termination with notice 143
Remedies for wrongful dismissal 145
11 Unfair dismissal and redundancy rights (1) 148
Exclusions and qualifications 148
Unfair dismissal 148
Redundancy payments 150
The meaning of dismissal 151
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Unfair dismissal and redundancy payments 151
The effective and relevant date of termination 157
12 Unfair dismissal and redundancy rights (2) 161
Giving a reason for dismissal 161
Automatically unfair dismissal 163
Industrial action and lack of jurisdiction 166
Official action 166
Unofficial action 168
Potentially fair reasons for dismissal 169
Capability or qualifications 169
Conduct 173
Redundancy 176
Statutory ban 180
Some other substantial reason 181
Reasonableness in the circumstances 183
Section 57(3) EPCA 1978 (as amended) 183
The Code of Practice and procedural fairness 184
13 Unfair dismissal and redundancy rights (3) 191
The definition of redundancy 191
Offers of alternative employment 192
Dismissal for misconduct or striking during the notice
period 195
The procedure for handling redundancies 195
Consultation 195
Notification 200
The procedure for handling transfers of undertakings 201
The types of transfer covered 201
The duty to inform and consult the representatives
of recognized trade unions 202
Time off to look for work 204
14 Unfair dismissal and redundancy rights (4) 207
Making a claim 207
Unfair dismissal 207
Redundancy 208
Conciliation and compromise agreements 209
The remedies for unfair dismissal 211
Re-employment 211
Awards of compensation 214
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Contents ix
Calculating a redundancy payment 220
Employee rights on insolvency 221
15 Calculating continuous service, normal working hours
and a week s pay 226
Continuity of employment 226
Weeks which count 227
Strikes and lock-outs 230
Change of employer 231
Normal working hours 232
A week s pay 233
Where there are normal working hours 233
Where there are no normal working hours 234
16 The legal framework of collective bargaining 237
Employers associations 237
Trade unions and certificates of independence 238
Recognition 241
Disclosure of information for collective bargaining 243
The directors report on employee involvement 247
The legal enforceability of collective agreements 247
17 Data protection and access to medical reports 250
The Data Protection Act 1984 250
The scope of the legislation 250
The data protection principles 251
The right of data subjects 253
General exemptions 255
Registration 257
The Registrar s powers and the appeal process 258
The Access to Medical Reports Act 1988 259
18 The trade union rights of employees 264
Time off for trade union duties and activities 264
Duties 264
Activities 268
Action short of dismissal 269
Dismissals relating to trade union membership 273
Union membership or recognition requirements in
contracts 275
x Essentials of employment law
19 Trade unions and their members 279
Admission 279
Check-off arrangements 280
Discipline, expulsion and resignation 281
Elections 285
Political funds 287
Ballot funding and facilities 288
Inter-union disputes 289
20 Liability for industrial action 292
The economic torts 292
Inducing a breach of contract 292
Intimidation 294
Conspiracy 294
Interference with business by unlawful means 295
Inducing a breach of statutory duty 295
Economic duress 296
The golden formula 296
The meaning of trade dispute 297
Contemplation or furtherance 299
Secondary action 299
Unions responsibility for the acts of their members
and officials 300
Ballots and notice of industrial action 302
Remedies 305
Damages 305
Injunctions 305
Industrial action affecting the supply of goods
or services to an individual 308
Picketing 309
Civil law aspects 309
The impact of the criminal law 311
Other criminal activities 3X2
Appendix 316
Industrial tribunal jurisdictions: service requirement
and time limits 31^
Bibliography 319
Index m
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