Industrial relations and trade unions law Books

Book SynopsisThe call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the year 2005, the country overtook India as the world''s voice capital, and industry revenues are now the second largest contributor to national GDP. In Lives on the Line, Jeffrey J. Sallaz retraces the assemblage of a global market for voice over the past two decades. Drawing upon case studies of sixty Filipino call center workers and two years of fieldwork in Manila, he illustrates how offshore call center jobs represent a middle path for educated Filipinos, who are faced with the dismaying choice to migrate abroad in search of prosperity versus stay at home as an impoverished professional. A rich ethnographic study, this book challenges existing stereotypes regarding offshore service jobs and sheds light upon the reasons that the Philippines has become the world''s favored location for voice. It looks beyond call centers and beyond India to advance debates concerning global capitalism, the future of work, and the lives of those who labor in offshored jobs.Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction 1: One Job, Many Lives 2: Assembling a Labor Market Part 2 Mediators Unpacked 3: Firms: Seeing Like a Call Center 4: The State: Making a Middle Path 5: Labor: Seeking the Philippine Dream Part 3 Three Archetypes 6: Responsible Women 7: Restless Gays 8: Rooted Men Part 4 Conclusion 9: Gone Baby Gone 10: The Relativity of Work Appendix | An Ethnographic Narrative Acknowledgements Notes Index

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Book SynopsisEmployment law has undergone a great deal of change over the past few years; most significantly the enactment of the Equality Act 2010 and the case law that has emerged as a result have irrevocably altered the legal landscape in relation to discrimination in the workplace. These developments have been fully explored in this new edition of A Practical Approach to Employment Law. Now in its ninth edition, this book provides a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the principles and practice of employment law. It is structured to meet the requirements of the lawyer who needs to find practical solutions to practical problems. It provides a clear guide to all aspects of individual and collective employment law as it actually works today. Key developments in this new edition include: extensive coverage of new rules and legislation such as the Equality Act 2010, the Enterprise & Regulatory Reform Act 2013, the Growth & Infrastructure Act 2013, the Trade Union Act 2016, and the new EmploTrade ReviewReview from previous edition A comprehensive, almost encyclopaedic review of employment law...A large amount of serious law is presented in a lucid, easy to read style... The book provides an invaluable reference point for expert practitioners seeking to home in on specific questions. * Ellen Temperton (Baker & McKenzie), New Law Journal *The author is a barrister of considerable repute with extensive experience of both advising on employment law issues and advocacy in various forms. It provides a clear guide to all aspects of individual and collective employment law in practice today...This book is a comprehensive review of employment law and contains various illustrations of unreported decisions which the author is able to bring to the reader's attention as a result of his time spent in various tribunals. * Michael Grisenthwaite (Fidelity International, London), International Company and Commercial Law Review *Table of ContentsINDEX

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Book SynopsisLabour law is widely considered to be in crisis by scholars of the field. This crisis has an obvious external dimension - labour law is attacked for impeding efficiency, flexibility, and development; vilified for reducing employment and for favouring already well placed employees over less fortunate ones; and discredited for failing to cover the most vulnerable workers and workers in the informal sector. These are just some of the external challenges to labour law. There is also an internal challenge, as labour lawyers themselves increasingly question whether their discipline is conceptually coherent, relevant to the new empirical realities of the world of work, and normatively salient in the world as we now know it. This book responds to such fundamental challenges by asking the most fundamental questions: What is labour law for? How can it be justified? And what are the normative premises on which reforms should be based? There has been growing interest in such questions in recent yeTrade ReviewThe idea of labour law features 25 contributions from 29 leading experts in the field who challenge, in different ways, the way we think about labour law. All of the chapters are informative and thought-provoking. Several are outstanding...Following a useful introduction by the editors, the books successive chapters provide a wealth of information and analysis. * Anne Trebilcock, International Labour Review *The Idea of Labour Law is something too important to be left to lawyers alone; so I hope this edited collection is read by a wide audience in employment relations. * Aaron Rathmell (Barrister) Journal of Industrial Relations *This book, of twenty-five chapters by thirty authors, is packed with information, insight, argument, and angst. These chapters variously cry grief and despair, call for fundamental reformulation, suggest a less radical range for adaptation and growth, or express sobering cautions even as they echo the last suggestion. * Matthew W. Finkin, Comparative Labour Law & Policy Journal *Table of ContentsUnderstanding Labour Law: A Timeless Idea, a Timed-Out Idea, or an Idea Whose Time has Now Come? ; THE IDEA OF LABOUR LAW IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT ; 1. Labour Law After Labour ; 2. Factors Influencing the Making and Transformation of Labour Law in Europe ; 3. Re-Inventing Labour Law? ; 4. Hugo Sinzheimer and the Constitutional Function of Labour Law ; 5. Global Conceptualizations and Local Constructions on the Idea of Labour Law ; 6. The Idea of the Idea of Labour Law: A Parable ; NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF THE IDEA OF LABOUR LAW ; 7. Labour Law's Theory of Justice ; 8. Labour as a 'Fictive Commodity': Radically Reconceptualizing Labour Law ; 9. Theories of Rights as Justifications for Labour Law ; 10. The Contribution of Labour Law to Economic and Human Development ; NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS AND LEGAL IDEAS: RETHINKING EXISTING STRUCTURES ; 11. Re-Matching Labour Laws with Their Purpose ; 12. The Legal Characterization of Personal Work Relations and the Idea of Labour Law ; 13. Ideas of Labour Law - Views From the South ; 14. Informal Employment and the Challenges for Labour Law ; 15. The Impossibility of Work Law ; 16. Procurement Law to Enforce Labour Standards ; 17. Labor Activism in Local Politics: From CBAs to 'CBAs' and Beyond ; NEW LABOUR LAW IDEAS: RETHINKING EXISTING BOUNDARIES ; 18. The Broad Idea of Labour Law: Industrial Policy, Labour Market Regulation, and Decent Work ; 19. The Third Function of Labor Law: Distributing Labor Market Opportunities Among Workers ; 20. Beyond Collective Bargaining: Modern Unions as Agents of Social Solidarity ; 21. From Conflict to Regulation: The Transformative Function of Labour Law ; NEW IDEAS OF LABOUR LAW FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ; 22. Out of the Shadows? The Non-Binding Multilateral Framework on Migration (2006) and Prospects for Using International Labour Regulation to Forge Global Labour Market Membership ; 23. Flexible Bureaucracies in Labor Market Regulation ; 24. Collective Exit Strategies: New Ideas in Transnational Labour Law ; 25. Emancipation in the Idea of Labour Law: Commoditization, Resistance and Distributive Justice beyond borders

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative overview of the question of power in trade union strategyTrade Review'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker. By centring her thesis on power, this book contributes to our understanding of what strategies and mechanisms enable workers to stand a chance at achieving justice' -- Jane McAlevey is an organiser, scholar and author of 'No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age' (Oxford University Press, 2018)'A must-read - by a top-class scholar, union educator and activist, and written with exceptional clarity. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of the world and with the tools to change it' -- John Kelly, Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at Birkbeck College University of London'Part history text, part employment relations research; Jane Holgate's book critiques decades of union renewal strategies in the UK and questions assumptions from both the left and right over how to regain collective power rather than just recruit new members' -- Dave Smith is a blacklisted construction worker and co-author of 'Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists' (New Internationalist, 2016)'A brilliant treatise on how to think about worker power in the context of sweeping structural change. It is well past time for labour scholars to return to this fundamental question and Jane Holgate has made an indispensable contribution to the canon' -- Janice Fine, Professor of Labour Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University and Director of Research and Strategy at the Centre on Innovation in Worker Organisation'An excellent review of the leaps forward and setbacks for workers and their unions, and an invaluable read for Jane Holgate's astute analyses. But that's not what the book is about. It is about power. Power for workers, which is the reason for organising, and which is too often forgotten in the daily struggle. We can continue on the current path to oblivion, with unions becoming little more than legacy politicians, or remember our roots and aggressively organise in new ways with workers in an evolving economy' -- Wade Rathke, founder and Chief Organiser of ACORN International'In examining the problems that we have to face to rebuild the movement, this analysis of power, who has it and how to build it, is a must-read for aspiring activists. An essential book for those who are committed to the idea that trade unionism is a vehicle through which we can organise to delivering transformative change for all workers' -- Wilf Sullivan, Race Equality Officer for the Trades Union Congress (TUC)'Jane Holgate's experience as an academic and a union activist has given her unique insights that make this book an important read for anyone who wants to understand where unions have been, where they are now and where they need to go' -- Arnie Graf, community organiser with the Industrial Areas Foundation and author of 'Lessons Learned. Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing' (ACTA Publications, 2020)'Arise brings together a range of material including working class history and powerful critiques of union attempts at rejuvenation to produce a useful contribution to the vital debates about the workers’ movement' -- ‘rs21’'An essential read for activists, labour leaders, union organisers and academics who seek to create a better world.' -- 'Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research'Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Series Preface Acknowledgements 1. Looking to the Past to Understand the Present 2. Let’s Talk about Social Power 3. Harnessing Power in the Late Nineteenth-Century–Early Twentieth-Century ‘Gig Economy’ 4. Understanding and Using Levers of Power in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century 5. Structural Change and the Weakening of the Power of Workers 6. Union Responses to Decline and Loss of Power 7. Organising in Theory: Recruitment in Practice? 8. Leadership, Strategic Choice and Union Power in the Turn to Organising 9. Winning Power is Possible Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative overview of the question of power in trade union strategyTrade Review'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker. By centring her thesis on power, this book contributes to our understanding of what strategies and mechanisms enable workers to stand a chance at achieving justice' -- Jane McAlevey is an organiser, scholar and author of 'No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age' (Oxford University Press, 2018)'A must-read - by a top-class scholar, union educator and activist, and written with exceptional clarity. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of the world and with the tools to change it' -- John Kelly, Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at Birkbeck College University of London'Part history text, part employment relations research; Jane Holgate's book critiques decades of union renewal strategies in the UK and questions assumptions from both the left and right over how to regain collective power rather than just recruit new members' -- Dave Smith is a blacklisted construction worker and co-author of 'Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists' (New Internationalist, 2016)'A brilliant treatise on how to think about worker power in the context of sweeping structural change. It is well past time for labour scholars to return to this fundamental question and Jane Holgate has made an indispensable contribution to the canon' -- Janice Fine, Professor of Labour Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University and Director of Research and Strategy at the Centre on Innovation in Worker Organisation'An excellent review of the leaps forward and setbacks for workers and their unions, and an invaluable read for Jane Holgate's astute analyses. But that's not what the book is about. It is about power. Power for workers, which is the reason for organising, and which is too often forgotten in the daily struggle. We can continue on the current path to oblivion, with unions becoming little more than legacy politicians, or remember our roots and aggressively organise in new ways with workers in an evolving economy' -- Wade Rathke, founder and Chief Organiser of ACORN International'In examining the problems that we have to face to rebuild the movement, this analysis of power, who has it and how to build it, is a must-read for aspiring activists. An essential book for those who are committed to the idea that trade unionism is a vehicle through which we can organise to delivering transformative change for all workers' -- Wilf Sullivan, Race Equality Officer for the Trades Union Congress (TUC)'Jane Holgate's experience as an academic and a union activist has given her unique insights that make this book an important read for anyone who wants to understand where unions have been, where they are now and where they need to go' -- Arnie Graf, community organiser with the Industrial Areas Foundation and author of 'Lessons Learned. Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing' (ACTA Publications, 2020)'Arise brings together a range of material including working class history and powerful critiques of union attempts at rejuvenation to produce a useful contribution to the vital debates about the workers’ movement' -- ‘rs21’'An essential read for activists, labour leaders, union organisers and academics who seek to create a better world.' -- 'Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research'Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Series Preface Acknowledgements 1. Looking to the Past to Understand the Present 2. Let’s Talk about Social Power 3. Harnessing Power in the Late Nineteenth-Century–Early Twentieth-Century ‘Gig Economy’ 4. Understanding and Using Levers of Power in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century 5. Structural Change and the Weakening of the Power of Workers 6. Union Responses to Decline and Loss of Power 7. Organising in Theory: Recruitment in Practice? 8. Leadership, Strategic Choice and Union Power in the Turn to Organising 9. Winning Power is Possible Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA nuts-and-bolts guide to organising your workplaceTrade Review'Just at the time when workers are mobilising to tackle the economic and climate crises we all face, this invaluable handbook comes along to provide an essential guide to winning' -- John McDonnell MP'Drawing on years of experience, Unite activist Ian Allinson has written an organising handbook that will be invaluable for rank and file organisers and trade union professionals alike. He offers timely, concrete analysis and advice that will be an aid to activists across the trade union movement' -- Kim Moody, author and founder of 'Labor Notes''In the age of climate breakdown, militant worker organising is as urgent as ever. Workers and environmentalists share a common enemy in the capitalist class and Allinson gives us all a powerful guide of how to effectively organise for social change from our workplaces' -- Chris Saltmarsh, co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal and author of 'Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice'‘A must read for every trade union activist‘ -- Lyn-Marie O’Hara, Glasgow equal pay striker‘Workplaces are key sites of struggle against the hostile environment for migrants, and so to tackle these injustices against migrants we need strong unions. ‘Workers Can Win’ is a readable, practical guide for organising at work and building the power we need to fight back against oppression’ -- Ida Jarsve, co-founder, Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants‘A vital resource for anyone serious about taking part in trade union work at any level, and also extremely useful for anyone working for positive change in their community‘ -- Brendan Montague, editor of ‘The Ecologist’‘Workers have needed a practical, positive, accessible guide to organising in Britain for a long time and Ian, using his vast experience in the area has created just that. It will be a valuable resource for union representatives and organisers wanting to grow their branch and union!‘ -- Sarah Woolley, General Secretary, Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union'This book is just brilliant. It is not only packed full of invaluable advice and practical tips for anybody organising in the workplace, but it is also hopeful. Crucially, it offers an accessible political analysis of why it is so important for working class people to build power in the workplace and beyond, demystifying the process as it goes' -- Laura Pidcock, National Secretary of The People's AssemblyTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Why organise at work? 3. Starting out 4. Servicing, advocacy, mobilising and organising 5. Choosing and communicating about issues 6. How to organise 7. Using your rights 8. Planning action 9. Industrial and direct action 10. Management mischief 11. Dealing with your union 12. Overcoming difficulties and limitations Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPower, Politics, and Principles gets to the root of the policy-making process, revealing how a wartime order forced employers to the collective bargaining table and marked a new stage in Canadian industrial relations.Table of ContentsIllustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction The Unity of Our Country, Fall 1935-Fall 1939 The Prime Minister The Labour Movement The Employers Other Groups The Breastplate of Righteousness, Fall 1939-Fall 1941 More of the Same Incongruities Fine-Tuning Plant Committees The Task that Lies Ahead, Fall 1941-Fall 1942 The Campaign Intransigence Respect and Dignity Adherence A Code of Labour Relations, Fall 1942-Spring 1944 The Impetus The Experts The Code A Fine Conclusion, Spring 1944-Summer 1948 Tempering The Rand Formula Postwar Tumult The Middle of the Road Afterword Reference Index

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Book SynopsisSet against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage and long-term implications of a pivotal labour law in Canada. Utilizing a wide array of primary materials and secondary sources, Hollander gets to the root of the policy-making process, revealing how the making of P.C. 1003 in 1944, a wartime order that forced employers to the collective bargaining table, involved real people with conflicting personalities and competing agendas. Each chapter of Power, Politics, and Principles begins with a quasi-fictional vignette to help the reader visualize historical context. Hollander pays particular attention to the central role that Mackenzie King played in the creation of P.C. 1003. Although most scholars describe the Prime Minister’s approach to policy decisions as calculating and opportunistic, Power, Politics, and Principles argues that Mackenzie KingTable of ContentsIllustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction The Unity of Our Country, Fall 1935-Fall 1939 The Prime Minister The Labour Movement The Employers Other Groups The Breastplate of Righteousness, Fall 1939-Fall 1941 More of the Same Incongruities Fine-Tuning Plant Committees The Task that Lies Ahead, Fall 1941-Fall 1942 The Campaign Intransigence Respect and Dignity Adherence A Code of Labour Relations, Fall 1942-Spring 1944 The Impetus The Experts The Code A Fine Conclusion, Spring 1944-Summer 1948 Tempering The Rand Formula Postwar Tumult The Middle of the Road Afterword Reference Index

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Book SynopsisLabor unions and courts have rarely been allies. From their earliest efforts to organize, unions have been confronted with hostile judges and antiunion doctrines. In this book, Julius G. Getman argues that while the role of the Supreme Court has become more central in shaping labor law, its opinions betray a profound ignorance of labor relations along with a persisting bias against unions. In The Supreme Court on Unions, Getman critically examines the decisions of the nation''s highest court in those areas that are crucial to unions and the workers they represent: organizing, bargaining, strikes, and dispute resolution.As he discusses Supreme Court decisions dealing with unions and labor in a variety of different areas, Getman offers an interesting historical perspective to illuminate the ways in which the Court has been an influence in the failures of the labor movement. During more than sixty years that have seen the Supreme Court take a dominant role, both unions and the iTrade Review"For more than half a century, Julius G. Getman has brought to the study of labor law not simply the analytical rigor of a law professor, but a hunger for facts—to understand the effects of legal rules on human behavior—and the empathy of a participant-observer—whether among paper workers in Maine, clerical workers at Yale, or university professors across the country.Getman's unique and invaluable perspective is fully on display in this tour through the Supreme Court’s labor jurisprudence." -- Craig Becker, General Counsel, AFL-CIO"In this wide-ranging, critical survey of the Supreme Court's labor law decisions, Julius G. Getman displays the practical wisdom and acuity that has made him one of the nation's leading labor law teachers and scholars for more than a half century. Even the most attentive students and scholars of labor law will find valuable insights in this book." -- Cynthia Estlund, New York University School of Law, author of Regoverning the Workplace"Julius G. Getman deftly demonstrates how the Supreme Court—over many decades—has restrained the protections and possibilities contained in the National Labor Relations Act, one of the major achievements of the New Deal era. He paints a detailed and disturbing picture of Court-imposed limitations on workers' ability to exert lawful economic pressure and to vindicate their collective voice. In doing so, Getman brings welcome historical perspective to the current state of U.S. labor law, and situates the Court as an important contributor to the NLRA’s weakened status." -- James J. Brudney, Fordham Law School"Julius G. Getman's terrific new book supports in detail his thesis that 'the Supreme Court has played a major role in transforming the National Labor Relations Act from a law meant to empower workers to a law that helps to sustain the power of employers.’ He shows that this reactionary Supreme Court role began almost immediately after the passage of the NLRA, that it has continued through Democratic and Republican majorities on the Court, and in particular that the Supreme Court’s gutting of the strike weapon has drastically tilted collective bargaining against workers and toward corporations. Getman’s keen analysis is informed and strengthened by his unusual combination of academic legal scholarship, research on the reality of labor law in the workplace, and personal involvement." -- John W. Wilhelm, Retired President, UNITE HERETable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Court and Union Organizing 2. The Supreme Court and Collective Bargaining 3. The Supreme Court and the Right to Strike 4. The Court and the Protected Status of Economic Pressure 5. The Supreme Court, Union Picketing, and Boycotts 6. Exclusivity and the Duty of Fair Representation 7. The Court and the Definition of "Employee" under the NLRA 8. The Supreme Court and Arbitration Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFrom the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers UnioTrade ReviewSlater analyzes the legal and historical origins of government employee unions and compares them with the private sector experience.... Slater concludes with a comparison of the public and private models. He suggests that employer opposition to workers' organizing activities in the private sector explains much of the divergence in membership levels. Overall, the book is a well-researched contribution to the study of U.S. labor history. * Choice 42:3 *Slater produces a rich examination of five critical episodes in the history of mid-twentieth century public labor relations, and, in doing so, demonstrates the complex intersection of law, work, social movements, and the political process.... Slater successfully bridges the fields of legal and labor history to present a lucid and compelling thesis about the importance of law for union effectiveness, while also paying careful attention to the vital importance of the social movement organizing process itself. -- Jeffrey T. Coster * Maryland Historian *

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Book SynopsisThis provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment. These new standards challenge every orthodoxy in U.S. labor law and labor relations. James A. Gross argues that the NLRA was and remains at its core a workers' rights statute. Gross shows how value clashes and choices between those who interpret the NLRA as a workers' rights statute and those who contend that the NLRA seeks only a balance between the economic interests of labor and management have been major influences in the evolution of the board and the law. Gross contends, contrary to many who would write its obituary, that the NLRA is not dead. Instead he concludes with a call for visionary thinking, which would include, for example, considering the U.S. Constitution as a source of workers' rights. Rights, Not Interests<Trade ReviewGross's clearly structured account provides a good overview and persuasive interpretation for experts and undergraduates alike. * Choice *This is an obviously solid scholarly work.... Because it is so well organized and written, his book should be widely adopted in graduate and undergraduate courses on the evolving labour law and rights in the American workplace. It should also be studied carefully by the international cadre of labour law designers. * British Journal of Industrial Relations *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. From Wagner to Taft-Hartley 2. Conflicting Statutory Purposes 3. The Gould Board 4. Gould Board Decisions and Workers’ Rights 5. The Battista Board 6. The Liebman Board Concluding Comments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Employment Tribunal Remedies Handbook is the definitive, annual handbook to the financial remedies available in employment claims. It is seen regularly in negotiations, by parties and judges in the Employment Tribunal.This 2024-25 edition will be fully updated to factor in the very latest rates and compensation caps that came into force in April 2024 plus the key cases and legislative developments over the past 12 months.Covering over 100 topics from ACAS to Zero-hours Contracts, each entry provides a concise summary of the relevant law plus all the associated facts and figures so the reader can quickly find the answers to questions such as Basic Award: what adjustments can be applied and in what order? Contributory Fault: what heads of loss can be reduced? Pension loss: what are the current guidelines? Grossing up: how should this be calculated if different tax bands apply? Tax and termina

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Book SynopsisThe 2008 financial crisis marked the beginning of a prolonged and ongoing period of extreme economic turbulence that has created multiple challenges for both governments and national systems of labour administration. Difficult economic conditions are encouraging a reevaluation of established policies and institutions in the areas of labour, employment, social protection and industrial relations. This book analyses recent reforms in labour administration and national labour policies, charting their development and discussing the challenges and opportunities faced by governments, ministries of labor, labor inspectors, employer organizations and trade unions.The contributors draw upon new and original research to explore issues including labour law, public employment services, labour inspection and industrial relations. They evaluate the effectiveness of implementation, addressing questions relating to the structure and management of labour ministries, regulatory bodies and the resources that they have at their disposal. Future prospects for labor administration are also considered.This book will prove a thought-provoking read for academics, researchers and students of economics - particularly labour economics, social policy and public administration. Policy-makers and practitioners involved with labor administration at any level will also find this book to be an invaluable reference tool.Contributors: N. Countouris, M. Freedland, J. Heyes, R. Hyman, C.T. King, D. Koeltz, M. Luz Vega, L. Rychly, J.T. WeishauptTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Moussa Oumarou 1. Introduction: The Origins and Development of Labour Administration Jason Heyes and Ludek Rychly 2. The Changing Fortunes of Labour Administration Ludek Rychly 3. Labour Policy and Administration in a Time of Crisis Jason Heyes 4. Labour Regulation and the Economic Crisis in Europe: Challenges, Responses and Prospects Nicola Countouris and Mark Freedland 5. The Role of Government in Industrial Relations Richard Hyman 6. Active Labour Market Policies and Programmes in Japan and the USA: Will East Meet West? Christopher T. King 7. Delivering Public Employment Services: Which Model Works Best? Donna Koeltz 8. Governing Public Employment Services: New Public Management, Social Partnership and Privatization J. Timo Weishaupt 9. Labour Inspection Systems: Strengthening Enforcement in Times of Crisis Maria Luz Vega 10. Conclusion Jason Heyes and Ludek Rychly References Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique book offers a comprehensive systematization and overview of the EU´s emerging ‘acquis’ and practice of Collective Labour Law. Although the core aspects of Collective Labour Law lie outside the EU’s competence to regulate, the laws and industrial relations systems of Member States are undoubtedly influenced by the EU, and the involvement of Social Partners, i.e. representatives of employers and workers, is essential for many aspects of EU law and policy.Featuring contributions from scholars and practitioners from across Europe, the first part of the book provides an introduction to key aspects, theories and topics of EU Collective Labour Law, including discussion of relevant EU law and case law of the Court of Justice of the EU. Chapters then move on to analyse and reflect on the most fundamental and challenging subtopics, questions and issues in this area, engaging with current debates and potential future developments. Respecting differences in views, approaches, and evaluations, it offers a variety of perspectives on the relationship between Collective Labour Law and the EU.Scholars and students of EU and labour law will find this book an essential resource. Its critical examination of contemporary and future issues will also prove useful for practitioners, social partners and policymakers across the EU.Trade Review‘The intense Europeanization of the production of goods and services makes it urgent to agree on common rules relating to employers' and workers' representation, collective bargaining, collective labour conflicts and peaceful settlements. This book is an in-depth analysis of this rather underdeveloped dimension of the European Labour Law. Drawing on the knowledge and thoughts of mostly young, but outstanding, contributors, the volume clarifies complex issues and includes possible solutions for the future of the EU social partnership.’ -- Jean-Michel Servais, University of Gerona, Spain and Honorary President of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security‘This book offers a remarkably interesting and systematic collection of thoughts on EU labour law provided by the brightest academics in the field. A must read for all those who are interested in what is happening in modern European labour law.’ -- Nikita Lyutov, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Russia and North-West University, South Africa‘This nuanced interrogation of EU collective labour law reveals a regime in distress. The authors deliver stunning insights into the inherent stresses between EU public policy choices and a collective framework that advances the “human face” of labour rights. Their conclusion that an enhanced EU collective labour law should be an important building block is one that deserves the attention of the EU and its avid watchers.’ -- Desirée LeClercq, Cornell University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to EU Collective Labour Law 1 Beryl ter Haar and Attila Kun PART I CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND LEGAL SOURCES OF INFLUENCE 2 EU Collective Labour Law: if any, how? 26 Edoardo Ales 3 Conceptual issues on representation and solidarity 56 Jérôme Porta and Tatiana Sachs 4 Collective bargaining: (not just) a fundamental right 73 Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni 5 The right to strike as a fundamental right 88 Piotr Grzebyk 6 Council of Europe: European Social Charter and European Convention on Human Rights 101 Elena Gerasimova and Elena Sychenko 7 Collective labour law and the European Union: an ILO perspective 114 Valérie Van Goethem and Vongai Masocha PART II SOCIAL DIALOGUE 8 The politics of EU Social Dialogue 132 Paul Copeland 9 Social Dialogue in the EU (legal) 145 Natalie Videbæk Munkholm 10 EU issues on tripartism 163 Jozef Kšiňan 11 European Sectoral Social Dialogue 177 Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra 12 European Social Dialogue and Associated Countries 194 Zakaria Shvelidze 13 Social Partners’ involvement in the EU-level social policy issues, focusing on pensions and unemployment 208 József Hajdú 14 Social Dialogue and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the EU 222 Attila Kun PART III EMPLOYEES’ INVOLVEMENT AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING 15.Information and consultation rights 239 Elisabeth Brameshuber 16 European Works Councils 255 Iacopo Senatori and Angela Rauseo 17 The EU and transnational company agreements 275 Beryl ter Haar 18 Collective bargaining in the public sector: different models in a distinct international framework 292 Alexander De Becker 19 Occupational health and safety – representation and participation 310 Diana Haas and Wolfhard Kohte 20 Board-level representation 325 Daniel Ulber 21 The role of employees (and their representatives) in company restructuring 342 Teresa Coelho Moreira and David Carvalho Martins 22 The influence of a transfer of undertaking on collective agreements and employee representation 359 Łukasz Pisarczyk and Katarzyna Wieczorek 23 Collective bargaining and EU competition law 376 Teun Jaspers 24 Collective bargaining and equal treatment 396 Petra Herzfeld Olsson 25 Social partners, labour inspectorates and the enforcement of the EU’s social dimension 412 Pieter Pecinovsky and Mariagrazia Lombardi PART IV OUTLOOK AND FUTURE CHALLENGES 26 Overview of common issues and evolution of EU Collective Labour Law 432 Daiva Petrylaité 27 Re-introducing a human face – the future of EU Collective Labour Law? 445 Tonia Novitz Index

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Book SynopsisInstitutions such as trade unions that were once relied upon to protect workers’ wages, conditions and job security are eroding. In response, new forms of worker protections are emerging. Protecting the Future of Work examines new forms of regulation that have emerged in response to increasing social concern about poor labour practices, growing inequality, and detrimental working conditions. It looks at how trade unions, community organisations and other actors have mobilised to raise public awareness and pressure businesses and governments to improve working conditions. Featuring a balance of texts on the changing nature of and the history of trade union change and transformation, the series Trade Unionism gives space for in-depth, detailed analysis and captures key themes on the nature of internationalism and trade unionism.Trade ReviewThis volume contributes to innovation in theory and policy debate in industrial relations and entails a stimulating and topical analysis of the role and practices of trade unions, new forms of regulation, and labour standards in times of challenge and transformation. -- Mia Rönnmar, Professor, Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden, and Past-President of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association.This edited volume is a thought-provoking, conceptually rigorous and urgent analysis of changes in labour market regulation and employment relations over recent times. The shift the authors identify towards a ‘patchwork of rules’ is illustrated through the impressive line of chapters covering unfamiliar areas like the ‘gig economy’ in China. A must-read for understanding contemporary developments in employment relations and a fitting tribute to Professor Willy Brown. -- Heather Connolly, Associate Professor, Department People, Organizations and Society, Grenoble Ecole de Management, FranceThis volume brings together some of the best thinkers about how the regulation of work and employment is changing around the world to mark the legacy of Professor Willy Brown. The chapters explore how the regulation of our working lives is changing; sometimes optimistically, sometimes pessimistically. But always with an attention to detail that defines Willy's intellectual legacy. The authors make important contributions to our understanding of the changes and what they mean to workers, managers, capital, states, and supra-state institutions. -- Melanie Simms, Professor of Work and Employment, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UKOngoing upheavals in the world of work, including the rise of platform work, outsourcing and global supply chains, have disrupted and corroded the capacity of established regulatory arrangements, notably collective bargaining, to protect workers and improve working conditions. This stimulating and timely volume examines the new forms of statutory and employer-led, voluntarist regulation that have emerged in response, highlights the institutional experimentation involved, and assesses their interface with traditional arrangements in an evolving regulatory ‘patchwork’. The contributors draw insightfully from developments across a range of countries. -- Paul Marginson, Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Warwick, UKA truly insightful analysis of the world of work in contemporary societies, offering many practical solutions to key problems. Very much in the spirit of Willy Brown's contributions, and a strong testament to how much he has given and continues to give to our subject-area -- Keith Whitfield, Professor of Human Resource Management, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction. New Institutional Arrangements for Safeguarding Labour Standards; Barry Colfer, Brian Harney, Colm Mclaughlin, and Chris F Wright Chapter 1. Neoliberalism or Augmented Pluralism? Defending the Web of Rules in New Zealand, Australia and Ireland; Colm Mclaughlin and Chris F Wright Chapter 2. The European Social Model and the Patchwork of Rules; Barry Colfer Chapter 3. Regulatory Experimentation and Gender Inequality; Colm Mclaughlin Chapter 4. The Limits of HRM in a New Era of Work: Bezonomics and the Amazon Effect; Brian Harney Chapter 5. Beyond Mobilisation at Mcdonald’s: Towards Networked Organising; Alex J. Wood Chapter 6. The Rising Gig Economy in China: Implications for the Protection of Migrant Workers; Cheng Chang and Wei Huang Chapter 7. Collaborative Institutional Experimentation to Address the Exploitation and Marginalisation of Migrant Workers; Chris F Wright, Kyoung-Hee Yu, and Stephen Clibborn Chapter 8. Global Supply Chains and Labour Standards: From a Patchwork of Rules to a Web of Rules?; Aristea Koukiadaki Conclusion. Towards a New Web of Rules; Barry Colfer, Brian Harney, Colm Mclaughlin, and Chris F Wright

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