Includes index.

Contents: Introduction -- Setting the scene: UK labour legislation and the new EC legal order -- Part I: The contractual foundations of the employment relationship: Introduction: The terms of employment contracts: implied terms -- The terms of employment contracts: express terms -- Collective agreements and contracts of employment -- Wrongful dismissal: Remedies and consequences for statutory claims -- Part II: Individual employment legislation: Introduction: The coverage of individual employment protection legislation -- Wages and hours legislation -- Maternity rights -- Unfair dismissals -- Redundancy decisions and the law -- Reorganisation in the context of takeovers and transfers -- Management reorganisations and workers' rights: a summary of the current position -- Sex discrimination -- Equal pay -- Part III: Collective labour legislation: Introduction: Rights of association -- Legal support for trade unions and collective bargaining and employee representation -- Management decisions and industrial action.