Employment Rights A Reference Handbook

This new edition of the successful handbook Employment Rights is fully updated and revised to include new material on all recent employment law. Employment Rights is a well-established text and reference point on all aspects of labour law in particular those outside the legal profession. Coverage is comprehensive and includes recruitment and selection; contracts (and changes to them); wages; discrimination; unfair dismissal and redundancy; health and safety; trade union rights; and work-related benefits. This new edition has been expanded to include coverage of developments such as the Employment Act 2002, Tax Credits Act 2002, EC Employment, Social Policy, the European Convention of Human Rights; and reform of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Industrial Tribunals Act 1996.

Richard W. Painter is Pro Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Business and Law, Staffordshire University. He has written widely on employment law.
Keith Puttick is a Solicitor and is Principal Lecturer in Law at Staffordshire University. He is a co-author of Civil Appeals.