All posts in GENERAL LAW
Legislating Labor Law, 1911–1924
The Supreme Court and Labor Law, 1917–1924
Labor Law and Supreme Court Decisions, 1925–1931
Porfirian Industrial Relations and the Rights of Labor
Pregnancy-parenting/ workplace conflicts and tribunal procedures
5Pregnancy-parenting/ workplace conflicts and tribunal procedures It should never be forgotten that tribunals exist for users, and not the other way round. No matter how good tribunals may be, they do not fulfil their function unless they are accessible by the people who want to use them, and unless the . . . Read more
The scope and nature of pregnancy-parenting/ workplace conflicts
2The scope and nature of pregnancy-parenting/ workplace conflicts No self-respecting small businessmen with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of childbearing age. UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom cited in The Telegraph (21 July 2004) Introduction As chapter 1 suggests, in the twenty-first century we have witnessed . . . Read more
Challenging and reforming pregnancy-parenting/ workplace regulation
6Challenging and reforming pregnancy-parenting/ workplace regulation In a changed world – one in which women were valued as earners and men as carers and both could choose to engage in the care-giving without costly employment penalties – how would men and women choose to allocate their time between the market . . . Read more
Exploring pregnancy, parenting and employment in the twenty-first century
1Exploring pregnancy, parenting and employment in the twenty-first century If the tensions between the demands of capitalist employment and the requirements for care can no longer be resolved via the domestication of women, then contemporary societies will have to seek new solutions. (Crompton 2006:60–61) Transformations within workplaces and families There . . . Read more
Tribunals’ approaches to pregnancy-parenting/ workplace conflicts
4Tribunals’ approaches to pregnancy-parenting/ workplace conflicts Although it is often a considerable inconvenience to an employer to have to make the necessary arrangements to keep a woman’s job open for her whilst she is absent from work in order to have a baby, that is the price that has to . . . Read more