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Privatising Public Prisons: Labour Law and the Public Procurement Process
Amy Ludlow
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Description for Privatising Public Prisons: Labour Law and the Public Procurement Process
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Successive UK governments have pursued ambitious programmes of private sector competition in public services that they promise will deliver cheaper, higher quality services, but not at the expense of public sector workers. The public procurement rules (most significantly Directive 2004/18/EC) often provide the legal framework within which the Government must deliver on its promises. This book goes behind the operation of these rules and explores their interaction with the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE); regulations that were intended to offer workers protection when their employer is restructuring his business. The practical effectiveness of both sources of ... Read more
Successive UK governments have pursued ambitious programmes of private sector competition in public services that they promise will deliver cheaper, higher quality services, but not at the expense of public sector workers. The public procurement rules (most significantly Directive 2004/18/EC) often provide the legal framework within which the Government must deliver on its promises. This book goes behind the operation of these rules and explores their interaction with the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE); regulations that were intended to offer workers protection when their employer is restructuring his business. The practical effectiveness of both sources of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509914135
SKU
V9781509914135
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Ref
99-2
About Amy Ludlow
Amy Ludlow is a College Lecturer and Fellow in Law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, where she is also an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Institute of Criminology.
Reviews for Privatising Public Prisons: Labour Law and the Public Procurement Process
In Privatising Public Prisons: Labour Law and the Public Procurement Process Amy Ludlow has provided a beautifully-written, compellingly argued, and thought-provoking account of the operation of the privatization process in the prison sector from the perspective of affected employees...a highly readable and balanced account that should be of considerable appeal to policy makers as well as academics...
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