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

Abstract

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 mind. The legislation of the mid‐70s which established the “statutory floor of employment rights” effectively excluded millions of workers from its protections because they were considered to be self‐employed, or failed to qualify through lack of continuity of employment. Indeed, it may well be argued that, if the policy behind the legislation was to protect those workers which collective bargaining could not reach, the groups who were excluded — the “peripheral workers” — were the ones in the greatest need of protection.

Citation

Painter, R.W. (1987), "2. The Statutory Floor of Employment Rights: A Bad Case of Subsidence?", Employee Relations, Vol. 9 No. 5, pp. 9-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055104