Perspectives on labour law:
Anne Davies provides students with an account of the various approaches to labour law currently adopted in the academic literature. Approaches such as human rights discourse and economic analysis offer a rich understanding of the larger themes in labour law.
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
2009
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| Ausgabe: | 2. ed. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Law in context
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| Links: | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=018613225&sequence=000004&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| Zusammenfassung: | Anne Davies provides students with an account of the various approaches to labour law currently adopted in the academic literature. Approaches such as human rights discourse and economic analysis offer a rich understanding of the larger themes in labour law. |
| Umfang: | 257 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780521897570 9780521722346 |
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Autor: Davies, Anne C. L
Jahr: 2009
Contents
Preface page xv
Acknowledgements xviii
Table of statutes xix
Table of statutory instruments xxvii
Table of EU legislation xxx
Table of international instruments xxxii
Table of cases xxxvi
Abbreviations xl
PARTI
A brief history of labour law 3
Collective laissez-faire - the 1950s 3
The demise of collective laissez-faire - the 1960s and 1970s 4
Promoting workers rights 5
Managing the economy 7
Reducing the number of strikes 8
Individualism and deregulation - the 1980s and early 1990s 10
Protecting workers rights: individualism 10
Tackling strikes 12
Reducing burdens on business 13
Promoting workers rights: EC law 14
Conclusion 14
Ihe third way - 1997 to the present 15
Studying labour law today 17
Further reading 18
Economics perspectives on labour law 20
What do economists do? 21
Microeconomics 22
Markets 22
Labour markets 24
x Contents
Labour law: two schools of thought 26
Neoclassical economics 27
New institutional economics 29
Macroeconomics 32
Productivity 32
Unemployment 33
The role of economics perspectives 35
Further reading 35
3 Human rights perspectives on labour law 38
A brief overview of human rights 38
Historical development 38
Types of rights 41
Civil and political rights 42
Economic and social rights 44
International human rights instruments and domestic law 46
Interpreting rights 47
Right-holders 47
Rights against whom? 48
Scope 49
Weight 51
Further reading 55
4 Modes of regulation 57
International and regional regulation 58
The International Labour Organization 58
The European Social Charter 61
The European Convention on Human Rights 61
The European Union 64
What role for national law? 69
Modes of regulation within national law 70
Further reading 73
PART II
5 Who is protected by employment law? 77
Typical and atypical workers 78
Economics perspectives 80
Rights perspectives 83
The scope of employment law 86
Employees 86
Workers 89
Contents xi
Self-employed people 90
Why does it matter? 91
Atypical workers have other problems too 94
The scope of employment law - an issue to remember 95
Further reading 96
6 Working time 97
Economics perspectives 98
The working week 98
Leave 100
Rights perspectives 102
Hours and holidays 102
Leave 103
The law on working time 106
Rules applicable to all 106
Rules applicable to workers with family responsibilities 110
Further reading 115
7 Discrimination 118
Economics perspectives 118
Arguments against legal intervention 118
Arguments which might support legal intervention 121
Rights perspectives 123
Who is protected? 124
What constitutes discrimination? 125
Can discrimination ever be justified? 128
English law 129
Who is protected? 129
What constitutes discrimination? 132
Can discrimination ever be justified? 136
Further reading 137
8 Wages 139
Economics perspectives 140
Minimum wages 140
Equal pay 143
Rights perspectives 144
Minimum wages 144
Equal pay 146
English law 147
The national minimum wage 147
Entitlement and enforcement 148
The rate 149
xii Contents
Equal pay 151
Eligibility and enforcement 152
Employers defences 154
Further reading 155
9 Dismissal 157
Economics perspectives 158
Arguments against regulation 158
Arguments in favour of regulation 159
Rights perspectives 160
English law 165
Eligibility to claim 166
Controls over the employer s reason for dismissal 167
Controls over the employer s procedures 168
Remedies 171
Further reading 174
10 Collective representation 176
Rights perspectives 177
Collective bargaining 177
Consultation 179
Economics perspectives 181
Economic arguments against worker participation 181
Economic arguments in favour of worker participation 183
The law on collective bargaining 185
The law on consultation 189
Further reading 195
11 Trade union membership 197
Rights perspectives 198
Freedom of association and employers 198
Freedom of association and unions 200
Can an individual be compelled to join a union? 201
Can unions set their own membership criteria? 203
Can unions compel their members to participate in union
activities? 204
Economics perspectives 206
Freedom of association as against employers 207
Discrimination against trade unionists 207
Access to employment 207
During employment 208
Dismissal 211
Duties to support union activities 211
Contents xiii
Freedom of association between workers and trade unions 213
Compulsory trade union membership 213
Trade union rules on membership 214
Union discipline and expulsion 216
Further reading 218
12 Industrial action 219
Rights perspectives 220
Economics perspectives 224
The law on trade unions and strike organisers 228
The law on individual strikers 234
Further reading 237
What next? 239
The economic and social context 239
The international dimension 240
Ihe EU 241
Ihe UK 244
The perspectives revisited 247
Index 248
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