Labour category: 1663 books
by Francesco Orbitello
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
An agile technical guide, easy to read, to share as much as possible in all workplaces to raise awareness of a widespread phenomenon across a true story. The protagonist of this story, in order to protect themselves from a "Sheriff" manager, managed to get a written act of intervention by the Minister.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The Equality Act 2010 was an extremely significant reform of UK discrimination law, consolidating the existing mass of statutory provisions into one statute. The Act brought new rights against discrimination and imposed new duties on employers, service providers, and public authorities, and also introduced...
Genetic Discrimination
Transatlantic Perspectives on the Case for a European Level Legal Response
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
As genetic technologies advance, genetic testing may well offer the prospect of detecting the onset of future disabilities. Some research also forwards that certain behavioural profiles may have a strong genetic basis, such as the determination to succeed, or the propensity for risk-taking. As this...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
The Equality Act 2010 was an extremely significant reform of UK discrimination law, consolidating the existing complex mass of statutory provisions into one statute. The Act brought new rights against discrimination and imposed new duties on employers, service providers and public authorities, and also...
Extending Working Life for Older Workers
Age Discrimination Law, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The UK population is ageing rapidly. While age discrimination laws are seen as having broad potential to address the 'ageing challenge' and achieve instrumental and intrinsic objectives in the context of employment, it is unclear what impact they are having in practice. This monograph addresses two...
by Hugh Collins
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
This updated edition offers a fresh approach to the law governing employment relations, emphasising the contemporary policy themes of social inclusion, competitiveness, and the rights of citizenship in the workplace. It acts as a succinct and accessible overview for those new to the subject as well...
Discrimination as Stigma
A Theory of Anti-discrimination Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
This monograph reconceptualises discrimination law as fundamentally concerned with stigma. Using sociological and socio-psychological theories of stigma, the author presents an 'anti-stigma principle', promoting it as a method to determine the scope of legal protection from discrimination. The anti-stigma...
Religion, Equality and Employment in Europe
The Case for Reasonable Accommodation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The management of religious and ideological diversity remains a key challenge of our time – deeply entangled with debates about the nature of liberal democracy, equality, social cohesion, minorities and nationalism, security and foreign policy. This book explores this challenge at the level of the...
by James Marson
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Whether you’re new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Employment Law is all about, Beginning Employment Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running. Starting with the basics and an overview of each topic, it will help you come...
Introduction to Employment Law
Fundamentals for HR and Business Students
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
Written specifically for HR and Business students, Introduction to Employment Law is a clear and accessible guide to employment law and how it applies in practice. Covering everything from employment tribunals and discrimination to redundancy and termination of employment, this textbook doesn't assume...
by Andrew Hambler
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The workplace is a key forum in which the issue of religion and its position in the public sphere is under debate. Desires to observe and express religious beliefs in the workplace can introduce conflict between employees and employers. This book addresses the role the law plays in the resolution...
Frontiers of Labor
Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two...
The City Is the Factory
New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Urban public spaces, from the streets and squares of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park in New York City, have become the emblematic sites of contentious politics in the twenty-first century. As the contributors to The City Is the Factory argue, this resurgent politics of the square is itself part of a...
The Dublin Lockout, 1913
New Perspectives on Class War & its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Putting Ireland on trial, Jim Larkin’s verdict was damning and resolute. His words resound, shuddering towards the present day where class division and workers’ rights disputes make headlines with swelling frequency. In this pioneering collection, an exemplary list of contributors registers the...