Rethinking job security : a comparative analysis of unfair dismissal law in the UK, Australia and the USA
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Bibliographic Information
Rethinking job security : a comparative analysis of unfair dismissal law in the UK, Australia and the USA
(Studies in modern law and policy)
Routledge, 2017
- : hbk
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-217) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book critically examines the proper role of the law in protecting job security in the contemporary workplace. It provides a historical, theoretical, practical and comparative perspective on this under-researched, but fundamentally important, legal mechanism at a time when the pressure to deregulate and dilute worker-protective laws has taken on increased importance. The volume critically analyses both statute and case law from three advanced industrialised liberal democracies with a common law foundation, the UK, Australia and the USA, to understand the extent to which job security is realised. By applying a common approach and a conceptual framework that emphasises the complex relationships between law, the economy and society to analyse a series of national studies, the book is also designed to draw upon the insights of comparative analysis to deepen our understanding of the limits and possibilities of legal regulation of job security. The national case studies are supplemented by research that focuses on how supra-national organisations have sought both to develop and disseminate new legal norms around the practices and processes of dismissal. This study critically analyses and assesses the adequacy of the international regulatory framework for protecting the rights of employees in the dismissal process.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Professor Mark Freedland QC (Hon), FBA
Acknowledgements
Table of Cases
Table of Legislations
International Conventions
1. Introduction
2. United Kingdom - Part I: The Journey to Unfair Dismissal Law
3. United Kingdom - Part II: The Evolution and Erosion of Unfair Dismissal Law
4. Australia - Part I: The Journey to Unfair Dismissal Law
5. Australia - Part II: The Evolution and Erosion of Unfair Dismissal Law
6. United States of America - Part I: The Origins of Employment at Will
7. United States of America - Part II: The Evolution and Erosion of Employment at Will
8. Conclusion - Future Prospects for Job Security
Bibliography
Index
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