Description
Book SynopsisWhy we can't rely on the employment tribunal system to protect workers' rights.
Trade Review'Essential reading for its empirically grounded and dispassionate analysis of what has gone wrong and how it might be put right' -- Simon Deakin, Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge
'With this excellent step-by-step explanation of how the system works in reality, David Renton explains why it so rarely does. Blacklisted workers have experienced the process firsthand and know this book is true' -- Dave Smith, Blacklist Support Group
'Approachable and readable. It opens up employment law to students and employees alike' -- Linda Clarke, Professor of European Industrial Relations, University of Westminster
Table of ContentsPreface
1. The Tribunal Obstacle Race
2. How the Tribunal System was Established
3. Agency Workers
4. Equal Pay
5. Why do so few Race Cases Win?
6. Human Rights Decisions in the Tribunal
7. Unions and the Law
8. The Common Law
9. Employment Tribunals in Crisis?
Notes
Index
