Formerly known as Bowers on Employment Law, this new edition has been structured to meet the requirements of the lawyer who needs to find practical solutions to practical problems. It provides a clear guide to all aspects of individual and collective employment law as it actually works today. The seventh edition brings the book up to date with recent legislation including the Employment Relations Act 2004 and relevant case law. It also features an analysis of the Human Rights Act in the employment sphere. It is an invaluable tool for the legal and human resources practitioner who will welcome its clear layout and detailed exposition of complex points.

1. History; 2. The Status of Employee; 3. The Individual Contract of Employment and its Sources; 4. Rights and Obligations of Employer and Employee; 5. Statutory Regulation of Wages and Hours; 6. The Duty of Fidelity and Restraint of Trade Clauses; 7. Equal Pay; 8. Discrimination; 9. Maternity, Parental and Domestic Care Rights, and Flexible Working; 10. Continuity of Employment; 11. The Scope of Statutory Protection: Unfair Dismissal and Redundancy; 12. Termination of Contract and Wrongful Dismissal; 13. Unfair Dismissal; 14. Redundancy Payments; 15. Redundancy Consultation; 16. Transfer of Undertakings; 17. Trade Unions; 18. The Union and its Members; 19. Collective Bargaining and Trade Union Recognition; 20. Protection of Trade Union and Cognate Activities; 21. Strikes and Other Industrial Action; 22. Picketing; 23. The Human Rights Act; Appendices

John Bowers QCBarrister, Littleton Chambers; Honorary Professor of Law, University of Hull; Recorder, Midlans Circuit

`The seventh edition of John Bowers' A Practical Approach to Employment Law is a comprehensive, almost encyclopaedic review of employment law, but in a remarkable slim tome given the ground it covers...A large amount of serious law is presented in a lucid, easy to read style, the text broken down into short sections and sub-sections...Good sub-headings and clear layout also assist... remarkably up-to-date for a bound volume, ...the main point of this book, which supplies the solid background to employment law, the facts of thousands of cases, many unreported, together with chapter and verse, or at least statute and section numbers. The book provides an invaluable reference point for expert practitioners seeking to home in on specific questions.' Ellen Temperton (Baker & McKenzie), New Law Journal. |d 15th July 2005