Introduction
Author | Geoffrey England |
Pages | 1-15 |
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Employment law is concerned with rules that govern the relations be-
tween employers and employees: Who creates the rules that govern
the job? How are such rules administered and enforced? And what is
the content of the rules? Clearly, this definition is extremely broad.
A worker’s terms and conditions of employment are determined by a
combination of processes:
terms of the employment contract;
express or implied terms of the employment contract;
through the implied terms of the employment contract;
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ployment contract, such as “reasonable” notice of termination and
“just cause” for summary dismissal; and
include
– substantive terms and conditions of employment (e.g., minimum
wages, maximum hours of work, and minimum leaves of absence
for designated purposes, such as childbirth or bereavement);
– safeguards against arbitrary abuse by the employer of its man-
agerial prerogatives (e.g., banning discrimination in hiring, pro-
motion, and firing on proscribed grounds such as sex, race, and
disability, and requiring discharge to be for just cause);
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