Employment Law - John G. Duddington - Paperback

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Employment Law John Duddington Employment Law is a straightforward text for students coming to the subject for the first time. It has been planned and written to make employment law as accessible as possible to the reader, but is nonetheless an authoritative guide to the basic principles. It is therefore suitable for students taking an employment law option as part of a degree course in law, human resources management, business, management, or marketing, and also at the professional level, for example, the CIPD and the ILEX Part 2. Key features of this book include: - comprehensive coverage of the field, in which the author provides critical commentary and the context necessary to a proper understanding of employment law. In addition, the book is careful to stress the links between the different areas of the subject- careful discussion of fundamental areas of employment law including the employment relationship, contracts of employment, hours of work and pay, discrimination in employment, health and safety at work, and termination of employment- the use of diagrams and flow charts to illustrate key points- specimen examination questions together with guidelines for answering them- emphasis on recent developments, with full coverage of the Employment Act 2002 and other recent legislation. John Duddington is Head of the Law School at Worcester College of Technology, and an employment law specialist who has taught the subject to degree students and to a wide range of professionals for several years.