Managing Fixed-term and Part-time Workers: A Practical Guide to Temporary, Seasonal and Contract Employees - Softcover

Macdonald, Lynda A. C.

 
9780754516620: Managing Fixed-term and Part-time Workers: A Practical Guide to Temporary, Seasonal and Contract Employees
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0754516628 ISBN 13: 9780754516620
Publisher: LexisNexis UK, 2002

Synopsis

"(PUBLICATION FIRST MARKED AS OUT OF PRINT 14/10/03)Changing patterns of employment have led to an increase in the popularity of part-time and fixed-term appointments. The Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations and the EC Directive on Part-time Work have had a significant impact on the treatment of non-permanent staff. Tolley's Managing Fixed-term and Part-time Workers is a legal and practical guide to employing non-permanent staff and addresses all the issues that you need to consider, including contracts of employment, pay, pensions, terms and conditions, training, holidays and successive fixed-term contracts.Contents include: Sample letters, contracts and policies to assist you in drafting your own documents Useful tips on how to prepare for new regulations and pre-empt problems Current thinking and the latest case law on the rights of non-permanent workers Tactics for avoiding discrimination claims"

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Synopsis

"(PUBLICATION FIRST MARKED AS OUT OF PRINT 14/10/03)Changing patterns of employment have led to an increase in the popularity of part-time and fixed-term appointments. The Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations and the EC Directive on Part-time Work have had a significant impact on the treatment of non-permanent staff. Tolley's Managing Fixed-term and Part-time Workers is a legal and practical guide to employing non-permanent staff and addresses all the issues that you need to consider, including contracts of employment, pay, pensions, terms and conditions, training, holidays and successive fixed-term contracts.Contents include: Sample letters, contracts and policies to assist you in drafting your own documents Useful tips on how to prepare for new regulations and pre-empt problems Current thinking and the latest case law on the rights of non-permanent workers Tactics for avoiding discrimination claims"

About the Author

Lynda A C Macdonald is a self-employed, freelance employment law advisor, management trainer, and writer. For fifteen years, prior to setting up her own consultancy business, she gained substantial practical experience of employee relations, recruitment and selection, dismissal procedures, employment law and other aspects of human resource management through working in industry. With this solid background in human resource management, she successfully established, and currently runs, her own business in employment law and management training/consultancy. She is also appointed as a panel member of the Employment Tribunal service in Aberdeen, where she lives. Lynda is a university graduate in language and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Additionally, she has an LLM degree in employment law.

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Publisher
LexisNexis UK
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0754516628
ISBN 13 
9780754516620
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
346