Mark Freedland QC (Hon), FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Employment Law in the University of Oxford, and an Emeritus Research Fellow of St John’s College Oxford. He is also an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Laws of University College London. He has written extensively on British labour legislation and public policy, and on the law of the contract of employment: he recently acted as the General Editor of the treatise on the Contract of Employment which was written by a team of twenty authors and published by Oxford University Press in May 2016 —
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The Taylor Review and the Zero-hours Contract
In this note, I take a very brief look at the ‘Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices’ (‘TR’), concentrating on its main proposal regarding zero-hours contracting and using that as a focal point upon which to centre a view of this ...
Miller, the European Union Withdrawal Bill, and the Non-explanatory Notes
In her blog posting of January 24th 2017 about the decision of the Supreme Court in the Miller case, Professor Sandra Fredman very rightly observed that:- ‘One of the most disturbing consequences of the referendum has been the ...
Solidarity Not Separation: The Case for Continued Interaction Between UK and EU employment rights – an attempt to sum up
I have consciously and deliberately picked up on and generalized the title of Professor Fredman’s initial contribution to this series because that title cannot in my view be bettered as a slogan for the series as a whole. It puts its ...
The Regulation of Casual Work and the Problematical Idea of the ‘Zero Hours Contract’
There has of late been considerable public concern in the UK about the use of a kind of employment arrangement known as the ‘zero hours contract’. The essence of employment arrangements of this kind is that the worker is offered work ...
