The Employment Contract: Legal Principles, Drafting, and Interpretation

Dr Douglas Brodie is currently Reader in Law at Edinburgh University, and his main research areas are in the area of labour law, including employment contracts, collective agreements, strike law, and the history of labour law in the United Kingdom. Dr Brodie also works as a consultant to a leading Edinburgh law firm: Simpson and Marwick.

• 1. Identifying the Contract of Employment ; 2. Continuity of Employment: The Common Law ; 3. Formation of the Contract ; 4. Implied Terms ; 5. Mutual Trust and Confidence ; 6. The Right to Wages ; 7. The Duty of Fidelity ; 8. Restrictive Covenants ; 9. Custom and Practice ; 10. Collective Agreements and Employment Contracts ; 11. Interpretation of Employment Contracts ; 12. Analysis Applied: Drafting of Employment Contracts ; 13. Variation of the Employment Contract

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