Human Rights at Work

Reimagining Employment Law

Alan Bogg, Hugh Collins, ACL Davies, Virginia Mantouvalou

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781509938742
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781509938759
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Labour & Employment Law
• Index: Law

Should workers ever lose their job because of their political views or affiliations? Should female employees be entitled to wear a headscarf in the workplace for religious reasons? Can it ever be right for an employer to dismiss someone for personal activities undertaken in their leisure time? What restrictions, if any, should be placed on the right to strike ?

Engagingly written, this innovative new textbook provides an entry point for exploring these and other topical issues, enabling students to analyse the applicability of human rights to disputes between employers and workers in the UK. It offers an original perspective on the traditional topics of employment law as well as looking in greater depth at new issues, such as employees' use of social media or the enforcement of human rights in the gig economy.

Uniquely, the book considers the most important international Conventions that are relevant for the law in the UK, especially the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Social Charter, Conventions of the International Labour Organisation, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

A central question that each of the chapters addresses is whether UK employment law is compatible with human rights law. Each chapter discusses all the key cases drawn from various jurisdictions, including the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.

Written by a stellar team of authors, this textbook is an invaluable teaching aid for both postgraduate and undergraduate students studying employment law, human rights, human resource management, and industrial relations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Contents
• Authors’ Bios
• List of Abbreviations
• Table of Cases
• Table of Legislation (UK)
• Table of EU Materials
• Table of National Legislation
• Table of European and International Materials
• Table of UK Other Materials
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Sources of Rights at Work
• 3. Human Rights and Personal Scope
• 4. Right to Equal Treatment and Equal Opportunity
• 5. Freedom of Association
• 6. Human Rights and Worker Voice
• 7. The Right to Strike
• 8. The Right to Work
• 9. Migration, Slavery, Servitude, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking
• 10. The Right to Fair Pay
• 11. The Right to Reasonable Limitation of Working Hours
• 12. Business, Supply Chains and Human Rights
• 13. The Right to Private Life at Work
• 14. Private Life Away from Work
• 15. Freedom of Expression Connected to the Performance of Work
• 16. Freedom of Expression Outside Work
• 17. Freedom to Manifest a Religion
• 18. The Right to Protection against Unjustified Dismissal
• 19. Human Rights as the Justification for Labour Law
• Index