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Oxford Labour Law

Putting Human Rights to Work

Labour Law, The ECHR, and The Employment Relation

Collins, Philippa (Lecturer in Law, Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol Law School)

Putting Human Rights to Work

Oxford Labour Law

Putting Human Rights to Work

Labour Law, The ECHR, and The Employment Relation

Oxford Labour Law: Putting Human Rights to Work

 

This title explores the human rights relationship between workers and employers. Using case law examples from the European Court of Human Rights, this work critically analyses the scope and application of domestic employment law.


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Beschrijving Oxford Labour Law: Putting Human Rights to Work

The very existence of an employment relationship places the human rights of a worker at risk. Employers can, and frequently do, exercise their managerial and disciplinary powers in a manner that interferes with the most fundamental rights of the individual worker. Adequate safeguards against such infringements are necessary if individuals are to receive full protection of their rights. This book examines how far the labour laws of England and Wales offer such guarantees, with a particular focus on dismissal law. The chapters reflect on the relationship between employment, labour, and human rights before conducting a detailed and critical analysis of the scope, shape, and application of domestic employment law. The framework for evaluation is drawn from the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, as it develops a principled and tailored approach to how the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Right should be enforced in working relationships. Statutory mechanisms, such as the law of unfair dismissal, and common law causes of action are examined and found to be lacking in their capacity to vindicate and enforce the human rights of workers. This book culminates in the proposal and elaboration upon an innovative solution, the Bill of Rights for Workers, that would draw on the successes of human rights and labour law instruments to render the Convention rights directly enforceable in the relationship between a worker and their employer.


ISBN
9780192894595
Pagina's
258
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Serie
Oxford Labour Law
NUR
820
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

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