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Struck Out: Why Employment Tribunals Fail Workers and What Can be Done
David Renton
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Description for Struck Out: Why Employment Tribunals Fail Workers and What Can be Done
Paperback.
Every year, over a hundred thousand workers bring claims to an Employment Tribunal. The settling of disputes between employers and unions has been exchanged by many for individual litigation.
In Struck Out, barrister David Renton gives a practical and critical guide to the system. In doing so he punctures a number of media myths about the Tribunals. Far from bringing flimsy cases, two-thirds of claimants succeed at the hearing. And rather than paying lottery-size jackpots, average awards are just a few thousand pounds – scant consolation for a loss of employment and often serious psychological suffering. ... Read more
Every year, over a hundred thousand workers bring claims to an Employment Tribunal. The settling of disputes between employers and unions has been exchanged by many for individual litigation.
In Struck Out, barrister David Renton gives a practical and critical guide to the system. In doing so he punctures a number of media myths about the Tribunals. Far from bringing flimsy cases, two-thirds of claimants succeed at the hearing. And rather than paying lottery-size jackpots, average awards are just a few thousand pounds – scant consolation for a loss of employment and often serious psychological suffering. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745332550
SKU
V9780745332550
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About David Renton
David Renton is a barrister, historian and anti-fascist activist. His previous books include The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right (Pluto, 2019).
Reviews for Struck Out: Why Employment Tribunals Fail Workers and What Can be Done
'Essential reading for its empirically grounded and dispassionate analysis of what has gone wrong and how it might be put right'
Simon Deakin, Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge 'With this excellent step-by-step explanation of how the system works in reality, David Renton explains why it so rarely does. Blacklisted workers have experienced the process firsthand and ... Read more
Simon Deakin, Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge 'With this excellent step-by-step explanation of how the system works in reality, David Renton explains why it so rarely does. Blacklisted workers have experienced the process firsthand and ... Read more