Law at Work 2024 (August 2024)

Chapter 1

1. The employment law system

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An individual’s employment rights arise from a combination of contractual rights, which come from the terms and conditions in their employment contract (see Chapter 3), statutory rights derived from Acts of Parliament and regulations (statutes), and common law, which is judge-made law based on custom and precedent.


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