The A-Z of Employment Practice

Overview

Are your line managers and your HR team aware of the changes that affect employment legislation?

The law has changed significantly since the previous edition of this title. In this revised and updated, 12th edition of The A-Z of Employment Practice, David Martin covers the latest developments within the complex area of employment law.

At a time when employers are faced with a maze of legislation and potential (and increasing) penalties, this book provides updated, comprehensive and, above all, practical guidance on employment law and personnel administration.

In over 80 subject-specfic and user-friendly sections, the book breaks the law down to provide real-life guidance and offers:

• Detailed and practical advice on what to do in regards to employment law, rather than just why you should do it.
• Instant access to expert guidance in an A to Z expanded index format.
• Each subject is covered individually and also cross-referenced to related topics.
• Checklists, examples, pitfall warnings and helpful tribunal decision case studies.

Reviews

‘This book covers everything you need to know about good employment practice … This is a really useful book. Every manager should have one.’

Professional Manager

‘This book will be of value to all businesses, particularly perhaps smaller businesses where the director/owner needs to be his or her own personnel or HR manager … a valuable guide for every manager and would-be leader.’

John Sunderland, Chairman, Cadbury Schweppes PLC

Content

• Absence
• Access
• Accidents
• Addictions
• Adoption
• Age discrimination
• Agency workers
• Appeal
• Application for employment
• Appraisal
• Apprentices
• Benefits
• Bullying
• Capability
• Communication
• Conflict at work
• Constructive dismissal
• Contract
• Counselling
• Data protection
• Deaths
• Dignity at work
  
• Disability discrimination
• Discipline
  
• Dismissal
• Dress
• Electronic communications
• Emergency leave
• Employee rights
• Ethics
• Expenses
• Familiarisation
• Fighting
• Fire
• First aid
• Fixed term contracts
• Flexible working
• Garden leave
• Gender pay reporting
• Grievances
• Handbook
• HIV/AIDS
• Holiday
• Homeworking
• Implied terms
• Investigation interviews
• Job description
• Keeping the team
• Leave
• Loans
• Maternity rights
• Medical records
• Military service
• National minimum/living wage
• Non-competition clauses
• Notice boards
• Organisation charts
• Outplacement
• Part-time employees
• Paternity rights
• Payment in lieu
• Pay policy
  
• Presentational skills
  
• Preservation of records
  
• Probationary period
  
• Qualifications
  
• Quality circles
  
• Recruitment
  
• Redundancy
  
• References
  
• Rehabilitation of offenders
  
• Retirement
  
• Safety
  
• Searching employees
• Sickness
  
• Slavery
  
• Stress
  
• Suggestion schemes
  
• Termination checklist
  
• Termination agreements
  
• Terrorist activity
  
• Theft
  
• Training
  
• Tribunals
  
• TUPE
  
• Unions
  
• Vehicles
  
• Wage payment
  
• Whistleblowing
  
• Worker – or employee?
  
• Working overseas
  
• Working time regulations
  
• Works Councils
  
• Xmas celebrations
  
• Young workers
  
• Zero hours contract
  
• Zeitgeist
  
• Table of cases

Author

David Martin

David Martin FCIS, FCIPD, FIoD has many years’ experience as a listed PLC Company Director and Secretary, consultant and author. For over 30 years he has run his own consultancy, Buddenbrook, carrying out projects for a range of clients, large and small, and has been a CBI member of the Employment Tribunals panel.

He is a regular seminar speaker and author of over 50 books including One Stop Company Secretary [The Institute of Chartered Secretaries] and The Company Director’s Desktop Guide and Discrimination Law and Employment Issues [Thorogood].