Reimagining Employment Dispute Resolution and Enforcement
This open access book examines the evolution of employment tribunals from a speedy, informal process to a system marked by delays and significant financial and human costs. Resolving disputes in the workplace is difficult, expensive and emotionally charged. The current system is broken but what is t...
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| description | This open access book examines the evolution of employment tribunals from a speedy, informal process to a system marked by delays and significant financial and human costs. Resolving disputes in the workplace is difficult, expensive and emotionally charged. The current system is broken but what is the answer? Using material from a large-scale empirical study, including a survey of over 200 practitioners, the book examines the problems facing the system. It then considers how these problems are addressed in other jurisdictions both in the UK and in other countries. The book then examines what can be done. It suggests that locating labour law disputes within a contract-tort-human rights frame takes insufficient account of the fundamental emotional and behavioural factors that are in play. The book therefore argues that much can be learnt from the resolution of family law disputes, whether it be in relation to how a relationship that has ended can be satisfactorily concluded, or how a relationship with ongoing ties can be managed going forwards. Utilising this theoretical reframing, the book proposes a blueprint for the future of employment dispute resolution. This book is for policy makers, practitioners and academics looking for a rigorous empirical and theoretical analysis of what has gone wrong with employment dispute resolution and what can be done about it. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1777592026-06-22T05:06:11Z Reimagining Employment Dispute Resolution and Enforcement Fraser Butlin, Sarah Barnard, Catherine Menashe, Maayan Employment law Enforcement Dispute resolution Comparative law Dismissal Discrimination Family law thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNH Employment and labour law: general::LNHX Employment and labour law: procedure, dispute resolution thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAM Comparative law thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNH Employment and labour law: general thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNA Legal systems: general::LNAC Legal systems: civil procedure, litigation and dispute resolution thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNH Employment and labour law: general::LNHR Industrial relations and trade unions law This open access book examines the evolution of employment tribunals from a speedy, informal process to a system marked by delays and significant financial and human costs. Resolving disputes in the workplace is difficult, expensive and emotionally charged. The current system is broken but what is the answer? Using material from a large-scale empirical study, including a survey of over 200 practitioners, the book examines the problems facing the system. It then considers how these problems are addressed in other jurisdictions both in the UK and in other countries. The book then examines what can be done. It suggests that locating labour law disputes within a contract-tort-human rights frame takes insufficient account of the fundamental emotional and behavioural factors that are in play. The book therefore argues that much can be learnt from the resolution of family law disputes, whether it be in relation to how a relationship that has ended can be satisfactorily concluded, or how a relationship with ongoing ties can be managed going forwards. Utilising this theoretical reframing, the book proposes a blueprint for the future of employment dispute resolution. This book is for policy makers, practitioners and academics looking for a rigorous empirical and theoretical analysis of what has gone wrong with employment dispute resolution and what can be done about it. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. 2026-06-22T05:06:09Z 2026-06-22T05:06:09Z 2026-06-21T09:18:45Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103019_9781509990511_102 https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509990504?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114228 9781509990511 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177759 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114228/1/9781509990511.pdf Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hart Publishing b7fec79e-c133-4cb3-9544-88060a4d4e06 9781509990511 Hart Publishing 384 London open access |
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