Employment law - Tom Harrison

A legal text which aims to provide law students on degree and professional courses and legal practitioners with a readable, comprehensive and up-to-date guide to this area of law. The book takes account of legislative and case-law developments up to the first of August, 1990. The style and format adopted in the book are designed to make this subject accessible to students who are studying employment law as part of a professional course or a BTEC course on industrial relations, management, business studies or accountancy. Areas of employment law explored in the text include the sources of employment law with particular emphasis on the impact of European Community Law, the nature and content of the contract of employment, sex and race discrimination in employment, statutory rights relating to equal pay, trade union membership, maternity and payment of wages, health and safety at work, the termination of employment including unfair dismissal and redundancy and the law relating to trade unions and industrial conflict.