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Table of Cases | p. xiii |
Table of Legislation | p. xv |
Abbreviations | p. xxiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
From collective laissez-faire to labour market regulation | p. 1 |
The labour policy of New Labour | p. 5 |
The scope of the book | p. 12 |
Personal Work Relations and Managerial Adaptability | p. 15 |
The law and management of personal work relations-context and policy | p. 15 |
Regulation of personal work relations under the Major administration 1990-97 | p. 24 |
Basic labour standards and general worker protection | p. 27 |
Recognition of human and equality rights in personal work relations | p. 32 |
Modifying legislation to non-standard employment | p. 34 |
The positive construction of managerial adaptability and public service reform | p. 35 |
The first phase of the Blair administration, 1997-2001 | p. 42 |
Basic labour standards and general worker protection | p. 46 |
Recognition of human and equality rights in personal work relations | p. 53 |
Modifying legislation to non-standard employment | p. 55 |
The positive construction of managerial adaptability and public service reform | p. 58 |
The second phase of the Blair administration, from 2001 onwards | p. 60 |
Basic labour standards and general worker protection | p. 63 |
'Family-friendly' measures | p. 63 |
Tribunal reform and dispute resolution | p. 64 |
Flexible working | p. 67 |
Working time | p. 70 |
Pensions | p. 71 |
Gangmasters: and criminal liability for health and safety | p. 78 |
Recognition of human and equality rights in personal work relations | p. 81 |
Modifying legislation to non-standard employment | p. 87 |
The positive construction of managerial adaptabilit and public service reform | p. 91 |
TUPE, Wilson and Palmer, and the Employment Relations Act 2004 | p. 91 |
Public service reform | p. 94 |
Teachers and firefighters | p. 97 |
The 'Agenda for Change' in the NHS | p. 98 |
The 'two-tier workforce', the 'Warwick Accord', and the TUPE Regulations | p. 101 |
Collective Labour Law | p. 105 |
The policy context in 1997 | p. 105 |
Industrial conflict law: continuity with some change | p. 110 |
Continuity | p. 110 |
Change: the position of individual workers | p. 112 |
Change: industrial action ballots | p. 114 |
Freedom of association and the recognition of trade unions | p. 114 |
Freedom of association | p. 114 |
Trade union recognition | p. 118 |
Underlying principle | p. 119 |
Detailed design | p. 121 |
The impact of the procedure and further reform | p. 126 |
Mandatory consultation of employee representatives | p. 130 |
Background | p. 130 |
Union policy: mandatory consultation as a route to collective bargaining | p. 132 |
EU policy on employee involvement | p. 134 |
Background | p. 134 |
Participation and the European Company | p. 135 |
Works councils and similar bodies in continental Europe | p. 137 |
From subject-specific consultation to European Works Councils | p. 139 |
National consultation arrangements | p. 144 |
Assessment | p. 145 |
Mandatory consultation and British labour law | p. 146 |
Subject-specific consultation | p. 146 |
Transposition of the EWC and SE Directives | p. 148 |
The framework Directive and the ICE Regulations | p. 150 |
Assessment | p. 156 |
Conclusions: partnership? | p. 159 |
Promoting Work | p. 163 |
'Welfare to Work' | p. 163 |
Labour market conditionality | p. 170 |
Availability for work | p. 170 |
Actively seeking work | p. 171 |
Jobseeker's agreements | p. 172 |
New Deals | p. 173 |
Jobseekers | p. 173 |
The disabled and long-term sick | p. 175 |
Lone parents | p. 178 |
Older workers | p. 180 |
Conclusion | p. 181 |
Making work pay | p. 182 |
The National Minimum Wage (NMW) | p. 182 |
The NMW and Wages Councils | p. 182 |
Setting the NMW | p. 185 |
Impact and enforcement | p. 187 |
Conclusion | p. 188 |
Tax credits | p. 190 |
Incentives to work and the relief of poverty | p. 190 |
Development of policy to 2002 | p. 192 |
Development of policy, 2002 and after | p. 194 |
Operation in practice | p. 196 |
Conclusion | p. 197 |
Reducing barriers to work | p. 198 |
Disability discrimination | p. 199 |
Age discrimination | p. 203 |
'Family friendly' policies | p. 209 |
Training | p. 211 |
Migrant workers | p. 216 |
International setting and conclusions | p. 223 |
Conclusion-A New Way Found? | p. 229 |
The contingent path to labour market regulation | p. 229 |
'Welfare to Work' | p. 233 |
The role of the social partners | p. 236 |
Individual employment relations, managerial flexibility, and labour market regulation | p. 240 |
A critical task for employment law | p. 247 |
Index | p. 251 |
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