This book examines the links between employee-organisation relationships, work wellness and the impact thereof on the labour market from a South African perspective. By employing this focus, the book explains the role of the employment relationship and the psychological contract in improving work wellness. To do so, it reviews the establishment and management of contracts in the context of labour relations at South African organisations. The studies presented focus on a range of topics, from individual wellness, the employment relationship and psychological contract, to relational wellness, the broader labour approach, and industrial action. The book presents a structural framework from an individual and labour relational perspective that links the employee-organisation relationship with wellness and its economic value, making it of interest to general and financial managers seeking to better grasp the link between work wellness and its financial implications.

Today, most Americans lack constitutional rights on the job. Instead of enjoying free speech or privacy, they can be fired for almost any reason or no reason at all. This book uses history to explain why. It takes readers back to the 1930s and 1940s when advocates across the political spectrum - labor leaders, civil rights advocates and conservatives opposed to government regulation - set out to enshrine constitutional rights in the workplace. The book tells their interlocking stories of fighting for constitutional protections for American workers, recovers their surprising successes, explains their ultimate failure, and helps readers assess this outcome.

International Financial Reporting Standards: A Framework-based Perspective links broad concepts and general accounting principles to the specific requirements of IFRS to help students develop and understand the judgments required in using a principle-based standard. Although it is still unclear whether the US will adopt IFRS, the global business environment makes it necessary for accounting students and professionals to be bilingual in both US GAAP and IFRS. This comprehensive textbook offers: A clear presentation of the concepts underlying IFRS A conceptual framework to guide students in interpreting and applying IFRS rules A comparison between IFRS and US GAAP to develop students' understanding of the requirements of each standard Real world examples and case studies to link accounting theory to practice, while also exposing students to different interpretations and applications of IFRS End of chapter material covering other aspects of financial reporting, including international auditing standards, international ethics standards, and corporate governance and enforcement, as well as emerging topics, such as integrated accounting, sustainability and social responsibility accounting and new forms of financial reporting Burton & Jermakowicz have crafted a thorough and extensive tool to give students a competitive edge in understanding, and applying IFRS. A companion website provides additional support for both students and instructors.

This book deals with international labor and employment law in the East Asia Region (EA), particularly dealing with China, South Korea and Japan. It explores and explains the effects of globalization and discusses the role played by international labor law as it affects lawyers, business, labor, labor unions and human resource management, and the labor issues that can arise in dealing in EA trade and investment. The text, and the readings (from area experts), are organized and written to provide the reader with, first, a broad understanding and insight into the global dimensions of the fast-emerging area of labor and employment issues (e.g., global legal standards and their interplay with domestic and foreign laws); and second, to show how these laws and approaches play out in specific EA countries (comparing global approaches with the specific laws of each country on four common agenda items: regulatory administration, workers' rights, trade unions and dispute resolution).

Das Buch befasst sich mit den International Framework Agreements (IFA) - ein neueres Rechtsinstitut, mit dem sich transnationale Unternehmen gegenuber internationalen Gewerkschaften zur Einhaltung arbeitsrechtlicher Rahmenbedingungen verpflichten. Vor dem Hintergrund, dass ein internationales Arbeitsrecht fehlt, Unternehmen jedoch zunehmend global agieren, kommen Soft Law und nichtstaatlichen Vereinbarungen eine immer wichtigere Funktion zu. Die Autorin untersucht die derzeit gut 120 IFA hinsichtlich Rechtsnatur, international-privatrechtlicher Behandlung und Rechtswirkungen, insbesondere im Arbeits-, Kauf- und Lauterkeitsrecht. Neben der Bestandsaufnahme des jungen Instituts findet sich auch ein Ausblick auf die mutmassliche weitere Entwicklung der IFA und ihrer Bedeutung im sozialen Dialog.

In this revealing look at home care, Cynthia J. Cranford illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist them in daily activities develop meaningful relationships even when their different ages, abilities, races, nationalities, and socioeconomic backgrounds generate tension. As Cranford shows, workers can experience devaluation within racialized and gendered class hierarchies, which shapes their pursuit of security. Cranford analyzes the tensions, alliances, and compromises between security for workers and flexibility for elderly and disabled people, and she argues that workers and recipients negotiate flexibility and security within intersecting inequalities in varying ways depending on multiple interacting dynamics. What comes through from Cranford's analysis is the need for deeply democratic alliances across multiple axes of inequality. To support both flexible care and secure work, she argues for an intimate community unionism that advocates for universal state funding, designs culturally sensitive labor market intermediaries run by workers and recipients to help people find jobs or workers, and addresses everyday tensions in home workplaces.

This book is a challenging, thought-provoking yet highly accessible introduction to discrimination law. It takes a thematic approach, illuminating the major issues in discrimination law, while imparting an in-depth understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of legal responses to complex social problems of inequality. This is enhanced by the comparative approach. By considering equality law in the UK, US, India, Canada, and South Africa, as well as the European Union and under the European Convention on Human Rights, the book exposes common problems across different jurisdictions and canvasses a variety of differing solutions. As in the highly successful previous editions, the book locates discrimination law within its historical and social context. One of its major strengths is the development of an analytic framework of substantive equality, drawing on a range of sources, and the author's wide experience of equality law in many jurisdictions. As well as chapters charting the social challenges and legal responses, the book compares the ways in which different jurisdictions formulate grounds of discrimination or protected characteristics; the meaning of key concepts such as direct discrimination (disparate treatment); indirect discrimination (disparate impact); and when limitations on equality are legitimate. Later chapters test these concepts in some of the most challenging contexts: pregnancy and parenting, equal pay, reasonable accommodation, and sexual harassment; as well as to the particularly controversial issue of affirmative action or deliberate preference policies. Discussing at length how racisms, sexism, LGBTQ+ rights, and other topics impact these contexts. The final chapter asks how the right to equality can be made more effective, critically assessing the paradigm individual complaints model, and possible alternatives, from class actions and strategic litigation to mainstreaming and positive duties to promote equality.

An engaged workforce is critical to the high performance and success of any organization. Employee Engagement offers a complete, practical resource for understanding and creating an effective engagement strategy that is aligned to wider business objectives. Supported by a variety of practical tools, features and templates, as well as numerous real-life examples and case studies from organizations such as AXA PPP Healthcare, Capital One, Charles Stanley, EDF Energy and Marks & Spencer, this handbook provides comprehensive coverage of all stages of the engagement process, from planning initiatives to building and measuring their success. This updated second edition of Employee Engagement considers the increasing use of technology in engagement, the role and importance of purpose and trust and the relationship between employee experience and engagement. New online supporting resources include diagnostic tools, templates and additional best-practice case studies. HR Fundamentals is a series of succinct, practical guides for students and those in the early stages of their HR careers. They are endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the UK professional body for HR and people development, which has over 145,000 members worldwide.

How do Family and Medical Leave Act rights operate in practice in the courts and in the workplace? This empirical study examines how institutions and social practices transform the meaning of these rights to recreate inequality. Workplace rules and norms built around the family wage ideal, the assumption that disability and work are mutually exclusive, and management s historical control over time all constrain opportunities for social change. Yet workers can also mobilize rights as a cultural discourse to change the social meaning of family and medical leave. Drawing on theoretical frameworks from social constructivism and new institutionalism, this study explains how institutions transform rights to recreate systems of power and inequality but at the same time also provide opportunities for law to change social structure. It provides a fresh look at the perennial debate about law and social change by examining how institutions shape the process of rights mobilization.

This is the story of the historic 21 week equal pay strike at Trico-Folberth in Brentford, West London, in 1976. TRICO - A Victory to Remember is indispensable to understanding how the 1970s marked a turning point in making women's rights a central focus for the labour movement, casting aside the minor role women were allocated in the mainstream. No longer could women's rights be given mere lip service. The strike was trail-blazing in many ways. It was the first time American-style picket-busting convoys of lorries and scab labour had been used against strikers who were mainly women. The employer, Trico, relied on legal loopholes in the new Equal Pay Act in presenting the case to a tribunal, which was boycotted by the strikers' trade union, the AUEW. However, despite the tribunal ruling in favour of the employer, the union nevertheless successfully negotiated equal pay. This achievement was unique, and led towards the Equal Pay Act being amended in 1983. The story of the strike, illustrated with stunning archive photos mostly unseen for over forty years, charts the women's campaign from its beginnings to their final victory, including anecdotes from some of those involved. There is a brief history of the struggle for equal pay in Britain, and a chapter on the relevance of the Trico dispute to today's society. Author Sally Groves worked at Trico from 1975 - 1980 on assembly and then as a trainee tool setter. She was one of the women on strike in 1976, and became the Trico AUEW Strike Committee's Publicity Officer. This book will inspire women everywhere; trade unionists and anyone suffering as a result of the gig economy. It will be of particular interest to those studying and researching issues of women's equality.

Die Selbstverwaltung als tragendes Organisationsprinzip der Sozialversicherung scheint in jungster Zeit zunehmend unter Druck. Sie ist nicht nur Gegenstand oeffentlicher Debatten, sondern sieht sich auch mit tiefgreifenden gesetzlichen Veranderungen konfrontiert. Muss sie gestarkt werden, wie der Name des Reformgesetzes aus der letzten Legislaturperiode nahelegt? Oder sind Einschrankungen notwendig, wie sie aktuell diskutiert werden? Antworten hierauf brauchen eine Vergewisserung daruber, welche Erwartungen an die Selbstverwaltung als Organisationsform bestehen. Mit Fokus auf die Selbstverwaltung in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung vereint dieser Band daher Perspektiven aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen zum "Mehrwert der Selbstverwaltung" mit solchen aus der Praxis.

Studienbegleitende Ubungen im Sozialrecht kommen in der universitaren Juristenausbildung zu kurz, obwohl dieses komplexe Rechtsgebiet mittlerweile in allen Bundeslandern zum Lehrkanon gehort. In diese Lucke stossen die Jura-Ubungen im Sozialrecht.In den einleitenden Teilen des Bandes geben die Autoren einen ersten Uberblick uber das Gesamtgebiet des Sozialrechts, seine Grundstrukturen, seine einschlagigen Modifikationen und Regelungsintentionen sowie uber die Hilfsmittel zum Studium einschliesslich einer kommentierten Literaturubersicht. Die sich daran anschliessenden methodischen Hinweise zur Fallbearbeitung eroffnen nicht nur den Blick auf typische sozialrechtliche Fallgestaltungen, sondern machen daruber hinaus auf Besonderheiten aufmerksam, die gegenuber der gutachtlichen Behandlung von Sachverhalten in anderen Rechtsgebieten zu beachten sind.Das Kernstuck des Bandes bilden zehn Falle, die sich - didaktisch aufbereitet - uberwiegend an hochstrichterlichen Entscheidungen orientieren. Bei der Auswahl der Falle haben die Verfasser besonderen Wert auf die Beachtung der interdisziplinaren Beziehungen des Sozialrechts zum Verfassungsrecht, zum Allgemeinen Verwaltungsrecht und zum Arbeitsrecht sowie zum Prozessrecht gelegt."

Das Urteil des Europaischen Gerichtshofes in der Rechtssache CCOO (C-55/18) vom 14.05.2019 loeste die jungste Debatte um die Notwendigkeit einer Reformierung des deutschen Arbeitszeitgesetzes mit dem Fokus der Normierung einer Arbeitszeiterfassungspflicht aus. Die Arbeit greift diese aktuelle Thematik mit dem Ziel auf, ein geeignetes Loesungsmodell zu schaffen, mithilfe dessen die unionsrechtlichen Anforderungen an eine vollstandige Erfassung von Arbeitszeit praxistauglich und effektiv in das nationale deutsche Recht umgesetzt werden koennen. Dabei findet zunachst eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Abgrenzung von Arbeitszeitbegriffen verschiedener Bereiche statt. Beleuchtet werden auch erwagenswerte Ausnahmebereiche und moegliche Differenzierungen sowie datenschutzrechtliche Besonderheiten.

An Equal Place is a monumental study of the role of lawyers in the movement to challenge economic inequality in one of America's most unequal cities: Los Angeles. Breaking with the traditional focus on national civil rights history, the book turns to the stories of contemporary lawyers, on the front lines and behind the scenes, who use law to reshape the meaning of low-wage work in the local economy. Covering a transformative period of L.A. history, from the 1992 riots to the 2008 recession, Scott Cummings presents an unflinching account of five pivotal campaigns in which lawyers ally with local movements to challenge the abuses of garment sweatshops, the criminalization of day labor, the gentrification of downtown retail, the incursion of Wal-Mart groceries, and the misclassification of port truck drivers. Through these campaigns, lawyers and activists define the city as a space for redefining work in vital industries transformed by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and immigration. Organizing arises outside of traditional labor law, powered by community-labor and racial justice groups using levers of local government to ultimately change the nature of labor law itself. Cummings shows that sophisticated legal strategy - engaging yet extending beyond courts, in which lawyers are equal partners in social movements - is an indispensable part of the effort to make L.A. a more equal place. Challenging accounts of lawyers' negative impact on movements, Cummings argues that the L.A. campaigns have achieved meaningful reform, while strengthening the position of workers in local politics, through legal innovation. Dissecting the reasons for failure alongside the conditions for success, this groundbreaking book illuminates the crucial role of lawyers in forging a new model of city-building for the twenty-first century.

This book originates from the research project 'New discourses in labour law' held at the European University Institute. A detailed analysis of part-time work regulation is presented for seven European countries, in order to ascertain how internal domestic choices of the legislatures have merged into the 'Open method of co-ordination'. The impact of European employment policies is considered in parallel with the implementation of the Directive on part-time work, thus providing a complete overview of both soft and hard law mechanisms available to national policy-makers. In this 2004 work, the interaction between law and policy emerges as a dynamic and constantly changing process of exchange between national and supranational actors, through the use of concrete examples of lawmaking. Labour law is put forward as being central in the current evolution of European law, and this centrality is presented as a confirmation of innovation and continuity in regulatory techniques.

Why does a country with religious liberty enmeshed in its legal and social structures produce such overt prejudice and discrimination against Muslims? Sahar Aziz's groundbreaking book demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the Racial Muslim. Comparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African American Muslims during the twentieth century, Aziz explores the gap between America's aspiration for and fulfillment of religious freedom. With America's demographics rapidly changing from a majority white Protestant nation to a multiracial, multireligious society, this book is an in dispensable read for understanding how our past continues to shape our present-to the detriment of our nation's future.

Das Buch befasst sich mit den Wirksamkeitsvoraussetzungen fur die Verlangerung befristeter Arbeitsverhaltnisse. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt auf der Frage, ob sich die AEnderung von Arbeitsbedingungen im Zuge der Vertragsverlangerung als befristungsschadlich erweisen kann. Im Fokus steht ferner die Europarechtskonformitat von Kettenbefristungen. Der Autor setzt sich dezidiert mit der Entscheidung des EuGH vom 26.01.2012 und der Rechtsprechung des BAG zur rechtsmissbrauchlichen Verwendungsweise von mehrfach befristeten Arbeitsverhaltnissen auseinander. Er widmet sich schliesslich unter Berucksichtigung des 41 S. 3 SGB VI der Frage, unter welchen Voraussetzungen die befristete Fortsetzung des Arbeitsverhaltnisses nach Eintritt in das Rentenalter vereinbart werden kann.

Verschiedene Normen im Arbeits- und Sozialrecht sehen vor, dass Dritte fur Verbindlichkeiten des Arbeitgebers burgengleich haften. Die Haftungsnormen finden sich verstreut uber verschiedene Gesetze und sehen teils abweichende Voraussetzungen vor. Der Autor nimmt alle Haftungsnormen in den Blick, um sich von einer zu sehr auf Einzelprobleme fokussierten Betrachtung zu loesen. Stattdessen werden gemeinsame Strukturen der Rechtsfigur in Abgrenzung zu anderen Haftungsformen herausgearbeitet. Die Bildung von Fallgruppen und die klare Umschreibung der jeweiligen Entstehungshintergrunde und Funktionen der Haftungsnormen bilden die Grundlage fur ein Gesamtkonzept zur burgengleichen Haftung. Die Durchsetzung der Haftung in der Praxis wird eingehend erlautert.

Gegenstand der Untersuchung ist der Leistungsmassstab im Arbeitsverhaltnis. Im Anschluss an eine Darstellung des Pflichtenprogramms des Arbeitnehmers setzt sich der Verfasser kritisch mit den verschiedenen in Literatur und Rechtsprechung zu der Frage des Leistungsmassstabs vertretenen Auffassungen auseinander. Hierbei zeigt sich, dass die insbesondere in der Rechtsprechung vertretene subjektive Theorie dogmatisch kaum haltbar ist. In der Folge entwickelt der Verfasser einen eigenstandigen Loesungsansatz. Dieser beruht auf einer analogen Anwendung des 59 HGB. Die Einordnung des sich hieraus ergebenden objektiven Massstabs in das Leistungsstoerungs- und Kundigungsrecht macht deutlich, dass eine soziale Feinsteuerung der Folgen unzureichender Arbeitsleistungen durchaus auch auf der Rechtsfolgenseite moeglich ist, ohne dass der Leistungsmassstab bereits auf der Pflichtenebene relativiert werden musste.

Die Studie untersucht das Problem der supranationalen Arbeitnehmerbeteiligung in der Europaischen Privatgesellschaft, SPE, einem der potenziell bedeutendsten Projekte der EU. Die SPE zielt als passgenaue supranationale Kapitalgesellschaft vor allem auf den Mittelstand, ist aber auch als Konzernbaustein relevant. Der Autor informiert umfassend uber den Stand der unternehmerischen Mitbestimmung in Europa und uber die Regelungsversuche fur die SPE. Er befasst sich mit der Suche nach einer kompromissfahigen Loesung der Beteiligungsproblematik und formuliert anhand einer Analyse der bisherigen Entwicklungen im Kontext des aktuellen mitgliedstaatlichen und europaischen Umfelds einen eigenen Vorschlag zu einer rechtsformspezifischen Arbeitnehmerbeteiligung.

Das Themengebiet Compliance hat innerhalb der letzten Jahre einen rasanten Bedeutungszuwachs erfahren. Diese Untersuchung leistet einen Beitrag zur Konkretisierung der Compliance-Pflichten im Konzern. Konkret wird der Frage nachgegangen, unter welchen Umstanden das geschaftsfuhrende Organ einer herrschenden Gesellschaft fur Compliance-Verstoesse in Tochtergesellschaften haftet. Ziel ist es, die rechtlich notwendigen und rechtlich zulassigen Massnahmen des geschaftsfuhrenden Organs der herrschenden Gesellschaft genauer zu bestimmen. Die Arbeit geht dabei von der Pramisse aus, dass es sich bei der herrschenden Gesellschaft um eine GmbH oder eine AG handelt, welche eine einheitliche Leitung im Sinne von 18 AktG ausubt. Im Ergebnis entwickelt die Arbeit einen Mindeststandard der notwendigen Compliance-Massnahmen im Konzern.

Policy discussions play an important role in labour law, and labour lawyers draw on a wide range of disciplines and approaches in order to construct their arguments. This 2009 overview of the basic principles of labour law and the related policy arguments introduces two of the main perspectives used in the analysis of labour law today human rights and economics. It offers a brief history of the influence of human rights and economics on labour law since the 1950s, explains neoclassical and new institutional economics and summarises the historical development of international human rights law. The insights of rights theorists and economists are then applied to a selection of topics in labour law, including anti-discrimination law, dismissal, working time, pay, consultation and collective bargaining, trade union membership and industrial action, in order to demonstrate the interplay between the two perspectives.

This is an account of the development of European labour and social security law as it interrelates with the evolution of market integration in the European Union. Giubboni presents, from a labour law perspective, a case study of the changes the European Community/European Union has undergone from its origins to the present day and of the ways these changes have affected the regulation of European Welfare States at national level. Drawing on the idea of 'embedded liberalism', Giubboni analyses the infiltration of EC competition and market law into national systems of labour and social security law and provides a normative framework for conceptualising the transformation of regulatory techniques implemented at the EU level. This important, interdisciplinary contribution to research in EU social law illustrates how the vision of social protection and solidarity is changing.