Case law at work

There is a very considerable amount of employment legislation governing the workplace, from the right to be paid a minimum wage, to laws protecting workers from suffering discrimination, says a new booklet from the Labour Research Department. While this legislation sets out the basic position, it cannot give enough detail to cover all the circumstances in which it will need to be applied.

Courts are therefore called upon to decide how legislation should be interpreted. Their decisions are an invaluable insight into how unfairness at work can most appropriately be challenged and how, in practice, judges find a balance between, and resolve, competing claims.

Case law at work 2010-11 is the seventh edition in the LRD’s case law series and is a unique source of information on recent employment law cases, covering the issues in areas such as contracts of employment, redundancy and dismissal.

www.lrdpublications.org.uk/publications.php?pub=BK&iss=1546 or available at £11.50 a copy from Labour Research Department, 78 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HF, tel 0207 928 3649