ABSTRACT
Employment law is one of the more dynamic and controversial areas of English law; so controversial, in fact, that there is no agreement even on what it should be called. Books headed Labour Law, Employment Law or Industrial Law will be found to cover much the same material, that is: • individual employment law – the law governing the relationship
between individual employees and their employer; • collective labour law – the law governing the relationship between
employers and employee organisations, that is, trade unions; • statutory controls over health and safety at work.
