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.
This book presents the issues in employment law in innovative ways and successfully puts the law in its political, social and economic context. The range of different materials stimulate discussion and debate [and it is] attractive to students as it presents the law in a clear and accessible fashion, is topical, and provides many activities to help students to cement their learning. - Lisa Rogers, Senior Lecturer, Birmingham City University.
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.
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