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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Making Employment Rights Effective: Issues of Enforcement and Compliance by Edited by Linda Dickens
Britain has witnessed an enormous expansion of individual employment rights but it is questionable whether this has led to fairer workplaces. Taking as its starting point the widespread view that Employment Tribunals are a flawed mechanism for enforcement this collection brings together experts from law sociology and employment relations to explore alternative regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to enforcement and compliance and to consider why legal rights have a variable meaning and impact at the workplace. Individual chapters discuss the growth in employment rights and their enforcement mechanisms problems with the ET system and the current and potential role of ADR (Gillian Morris Linda Dickens); reflect on the long experience of enforcement of equality rights (Bob Hepple) and agency enforcement of health and safety legislation (Steve Tombs and David Whyte); evaluate the potential of various reflexive law mechanisms including corporate governance (Simon Deakin Colm McLaughlin and Dominic Chai) and of procurement (Christopher McCrudden) as strategies for delivering fairness at the workplace. The mediation of statutory rights influencing how they shape workplace practice is illuminated further in chapters on trade unions and individual legal rights (Trevor Colling) the management of employment rights (John Purcell) and regulation in small firms (Paul Edwards).