Eugene Schofield-Georgeson

Contract, Labour Law and the Realities of Working Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a critical and timely account of how labour law has become a means for protecting employers rather than workers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781032453941
• ISBN-10: 103245394X
• Artikelnr.: 70149909

Autorenporträt

Eugene Schofield-Georgeson is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements vi
Table of Legislation vii
Table of Cases ix
1 Introduction 1
2 The Employee/Contractor Distinction and Casual Employment: Preferring the
Employer's Contract Over the Worker's Reality 26
3 Implied Terms: Reality in Historical Perspective and the Neoliberal
Approach 55
4 Adverse Action: . . . At the Employer's Convenience 78
5 Contract and Collective Bargaining: Neither Compulsory, Nor Voluntary
Bargaining - Redesigning Collective Bargaining in the Image of Employer
Power 93
6 The Right to Strike in the Shadow of Contract Law 118
7 What Can Be Done? 137
Bibliography 168
Index 182