Making Employment Rights Effective

Issues of Enforcement and Compliance
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84946-256-3
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

- This book explores a range of alternative regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to the enforcement
of and compliance to employment rights.
- The book addresses issues key to contemporary policy and academic debate and will be on interest to
all those specialising in labour law.
- The contributions are written by experts in the fields of law, sociology and employment relations.

There has been an enormous expansion of individual employment rights in Britain but their practical impact in terms of delivering fairer workplaces can be questioned. Taking as ist starting point the widespread acknowledgement of problems with the major enforcement mechanism, the Employment Tribunals, this collection brings together experts from law, sociology and employment relations to explore a range of alternative regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to enforcement and to securing compliance and to consider factors affecting variation in the extent to which legal rights have meaning and impact at the workplace. Thus this book addresses issues key to contemporary policy and academic debate.

Chapters discuss the growth in employment rights and their enforcement mechanisms, problems with the ET system and the current and potential role of ADR (Gillian Morris, Linda Dickens); reflect on the long experience of enforcement of equality rights (Bob Hepple) and agency enforcement of health and safety legislation under the 'better regulation' agenda (Steve Tombs and David Whyte); evaluate the potential of various 'reflexive law' mechanisms, including corporate governance (Simon Deakin, Colm McLaughlin and Dominic Chai), and of procurement (Christopher McCrudden) as strategies for delivering fairness at the workplace. The mediation of statutory rights, influencing how they shape workplace practice, is illuminated further in chapters on trade unions and individual legal rights (Trevor Colling), the management of employment rights (John Purcell) and regulation and small firms (Paul Edwards).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dickens, Linda

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Beschäftigung, Arbeitslosigkeit

Über Autor(innen)

Dickens, Linda
Linda Dickens is Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick. She has published extensively at the interface of labour law and employment practice, in areas including employment equality, individual rights and dispute settlement.