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Labour Law

Labour Law

Labour Law

3rd Edition
Hugh Collins, University of Oxford
K. D. Ewing, King's College London
Aileen McColgan, University of Leeds
September 2025
Not yet published - available from September 2025
Paperback
9781009612074
$64.99
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    Labour Law, now in its third edition, is a well established text which offers a comprehensive and critical account of the subject by a team of prominent labour lawyers. It examines both collective labour relations and individual employment rights, including equality law, and does so while having full regard to the international labour standards as well as the implications of Brexit. Case studies and reports from government and other public agencies illuminate the text to show how the law works in practice, ensuring that students acquire not only a sophisticated knowledge of the law but also an appreciation of its purpose and the complexity of the issues which it addresses.

    • Features clearly divided chapters and divisions in the topics making it easy for teachers and students to work their way through material
    • Provides context to the law to help students understand why the legal measures are needed and their effects in practice
    • Explains the basic legal concepts in ways that non-law specialist students can understand

    Product details

    September 2025
    Paperback
    9781009612074
    1036 pages
    244 × 170 mm
    Not yet published - available from September 2025

    Table of Contents

    • Part I. Introduction:
    • 1. Nature and sources of labour law
    • 2. Globalisation and labour law
    • Part II. The Contract of Employment:
    • 3. Terms of the contract of employment
    • 4. Authority and co-operation
    • 5. Flexibility and precarious work
    • 6. The personal scope of labour law
    • Part III. Statutory Regulation of the Employment Relationship:
    • 7. Wages
    • 8. Working time
    • 9. Equality
    • 10. Work/Life balance
    • 11. Civil liberties at work
    • Part IV. Collective Labour Rights:
    • 12. Freedom of association and the right to organise
    • 13. Freedom of association and trade union autonomy
    • 14. The right to bargain collectively
    • 15. The right to be informed and consulted
    • 16. Collective action and the right to strike
    • 17. Liability for collective action
    • Part V. Termination of Employment:
    • 18. Wrongful dismissal
    • 19. Unfair dismissal
    • 20. Economic dismissal.
      Authors
    • Hugh Collins , University of Oxford

      Hugh Collins is Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the School of Law, London School of Economics, Fellow of the British Academy, and Emeritus Vinerian Professor of English Law at All Souls College, Oxford. He is author of more than 20 books including Justice in Dismissal (1992), Foundations of Indirect Discrimination Law (with T Khaitan, 2018) Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law (with G Lester, V Mantouvalou, 2018), Human Rights at Work (with A Bogg, ACL Davies, V Mantouvalou, 2024).

    • K. D. Ewing , King's College London

      K. D. Ewing is Professor of Public Law at King's College, London. He is President of the Institute of Employment Rights; President of the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom; and Vice President of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights. He has taught labour law for over forty years at undergraduate and postgraduate level at several universities in the United Kingdom (Edinburgh, Cambridge and London), as well as in Australia (Melbourne, Monash, Queensland, Sydney and UWA), and Canada (Osgoode Hall Law School).

    • Aileen McColgan , University of Leeds

      Aileen McColgan is a Specialist in human rights, discrimination, public and labour law. Aileen McColgan KC was formerly Professor of Human Rights Law at King's College London, and Professor of Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds. She taught labour law at undergraduate and postgraduate level.