Employee Relations: Volume 9 Issue 5

1. Who are Vulnerable Workers?

Patricia Leighton, Richard W. Painter

In recent years, various groups of workers have become causes célèbres through being identified by both academics and the media as vulnerable in some way or another. The spectre…

2. The Statutory Floor of Employment Rights: A Bad Case of Subsidence?

Richard W. Painter

As we have indicated in the introductory section, the employment protection legislation was drafted principally with full‐time, permanent employees — so called “core workers”— in…

3. Disabled Workers, Employment Vulnerability and Labour Law

Brian Doyle

Contemporary interest in vulnerable employment groups has focused on women, ethnic minorities and the secondary labour market. Social discrimination, marginal employment and low…

4. “It's Part of the Job”: Violence at Work

Kate Painter

In 1986, the issue of violence at work was thrust into the arena of public debate by the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh and the deaths of three social workers in the course of…

5. Vulnerable Workers: A European Community Solution?

Erika Szyszczak

It is perhaps surprising that in recent years the most persuasive and optimistic response to the problems encountered by vulnerable workers has emanated from the European…

6. Responses to Vulnerability: The Example of Job Sharing

Patricia Leighton

The foregoing sections have demonstrated and analysed the range and complexity of vulnerability in the labour market. Its source can be economic or legal, or can derive from…