The 1998 Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) and the 2002 Employment Act, seek to change the existing face of UK employment law dispute resolution. Conciliation via in-house disciplinary and appeal procedures must now be followed before resorting to a tribunal hearing. Alternatively, in dismissal cases, employers and employees can both agree to go to arbitration. As a consequence, ADR takes centre stage in employment law dispute resolution.

For UK employers and their advisers, the changes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 (TUPE), to be introduced in 2006, have been eagerly awaited. These changes follow extensive consultation and will usher in a new regime to govern the rights of employees on a takeover or merger of the business which employs them. This book provides a guide to the changes, first setting them in the context of the existing TUPE protections. The book explores the practical issues and some of the controversies that have developed due to the changes. TUPE examines the impact...

This timely book explores the development of the European Social Model and questions whether the relatively high level of social protection provided, both in terms of social welfare provision and in the creation of workers' rights and employment regulation, is sustainable. At the 2000 Lisbon Council the Member States agreed that this model was in need of modernisation if the objective of creating the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in Europe was to be achieved. Consequently, this book examines the economic rationale for EU social policy, identifies the main factors...

In the UK, a cascade of Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations/TUPE cases - notably and centrally upon the service provision change, as well as the subsequent enactment of the Collective Redundancies and the TUPE (Amendment) Regulations 2013 by the UK government - have made necessary this fourth edition of TUPE: Law & Practice. The new 2013 Amendment Regulations, in force from January 2014, are intended to clarify the issues raised by recent cases and also to reduce the burdens on employers of small enterprises in the UK. This guide provides analysis of: the scope to...