TY - BOOK AU - Bowers,John AU - Bowers,John TI - A practical approach to employment law SN - 019927374X U1 - 344.01 BOW PY - 2005/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Labor laws and legislation KW - Great Britain N1 - Rev. ed. of: Bowers on employment law. 6th ed. 2002; Includes index; History -- The status of employee -- The individual contract of employment and its sources -- Rights and obligations of employer and employee -- Statutory regulation of wages and hours -- The duty of fidelity and restraint of trade clauses -- Equal pay -- Discrimination -- Maternity, parental and domestic care rights, and flexible working -- Continuity of employment -- The scope of statutory protection : unfair dismissal and redundancy -- Termination of contract and wrongful dismissal -- Unfair dismissal -- Redundancy payments -- Redundancy consultation -- Transfers of undertakings -- Trade unions -- The union and its members -- Collective bargaining and trade union recognition -- Protection of trade union and cognate activities -- Strikes and other industrial action -- Picketing -- The Human Rights Act UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip055/2004029479.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0638/2004029479-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/2004029479-b.html ER -