Law of Employment

By Macken, O'Grady, Sappideen and Warburton
Published by Thomson Lawbook Company 2002
ISBN 0-4552-1809-9
666 pages

Book Description

Law of Employment is Australia’s most established and respected book on the topic. It offers students and members of the legal profession a comprehensive, thorough and scholarly analysis of the law pertaining to the relationship between employers and employees. Each chapter provides a thorough examination of important cases and developments, and this fifth edition contains new material to reflect the changing nature of the law of employment. It includes a substantially revised chapter on statutory remedies, and gives special consideration to the ongoing impact of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) on the common law of employment.

Contents:

The relationship of employer and employee
Vicarious employment
Other relationships distinguished
Formation of a contract of employment
Performance of the contract of service
Suspension and stand down
The employer's right to terminate the contract of employment
Other modes of ternimation of the contract of employment
Injunction and declaration
Remedies - actions for wages or damages
Statutory remedies
The contract of employment and third parties
Economic torts and secondary boycotts
Unfair work contracts
Contract, award and statute
Discrimination laws

Final Review

Reading a lot of law material is not always very easy. But if you have to get deep into rules and regulations then you must think about stepping into this area. Lokking at his book from outside I noticed that it must have high details in regards to law of employment. But I hadn't anticipated how deep.

I have had a look into the backgound of the typical reader. Many come from universites doing their studies in law, risk management or easy to say HR related university units. If you are going to set up business then it might be quite good to have an insight into this side of business. The analysis of the law pertaining to the relationship between employers and employees.

When researching Australian labour law, the researcher first needs to ascertain if the question revolves around federal or state or international issues. Legislation consists of acts and statutory rules or regulations. Legislation comes in many formats. What matters most is not the medium, but whether it is up to date. Sometimes you may need the superseded legislation as it was at a particular point of time.

Since 1984, the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth) s 15AB allowed for the use of extrinsic materials in the interpretation of legislation.

Working through this book I did have some problem to get about the book. Some times I had to read a sentence twice to get the key message. The letter printing wasn't always easy to read. But if you work long hours in the consulting branch then it is quite natural that your Eyes are tiered by 11pm.

The best way to work on the material was to mark pages with a color marker and sections required by the university with PostIt™ Memo stickers.