Contents - Faculty of Law - University of Cambridge

1. Introduction: sources; history, personal scope, territorial effect.2. Making the contract of employment: express and implied terms, incorporation of terms from collective agreementsand works rules; changes in terms of employment; proof of terms. Duties of co-operation and fidelity.3. Termination of employment: with and without notice; wrongful dismissal; unfair dismissal; economic restructuring(and TUPE), redundancy.4. Worker representation: trade union freedom and recognition; information, consultation and collective bargaining;collective and workforce agreements.5. Industrial action: freedom to strike; effect of industrial action on the contract of employment and employment rights.6. Equality and prohibition of discrimination: concepts of direct and indirect discrimination; grounds of unlawfuldiscrimination; exceptions, enforcement, equal pay; duties on public authorities.7. Work-life balance: family-friendly policies, working time.READINGTextbook (essential):Deakin and Morris, Labour Law (5th ed 2009)Collins, Ewing and McColgan, Labour Law (2nd ed 2005)Materials: (which should be brought to all classes and may be taken into the examination)Blackstone’s Statutes on Employment Law (latest ed) orButterworths’ Employment Law Handbook (latest ed)Further reading:Barnard, Deakin and Morris (eds), The Future of Labour Law (2004)Barnard, EC Employment Law (3rd ed 2006)Collins, Employment Law (2003)Davies, Perspectives on Employment Law (2004)Fredman, Women and the Law (1997)Fredman, Discrimination Law (2002)Freedland, The Personal Employment Contract (2003)Davies and Freedland, Labour Legislation and Public Policy (1993)Davies and Freedland, Towards a Flexible Labour Market: Labour Legislation and Regulation since the 1990s (2007)(Reference to periodical and other literature will be made in the lecture handouts.)For reference:Sweet & Maxwell’s Encyclopaedia of Employment Law (loose-leaf)Harvey’s Employment Law (loose-leaf)55