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Employee Rights in Corporate Insolvency: A UK and US Perspective


Employee Rights in Corporate Insolvency: A UK and US Perspective

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Employee Rights in Corporate Insolvency: A UK and US Perspective

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ISBN:
9780367321543
Publication Date:
10 Oct 2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
182 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 21 May 2024
Employee Rights in Corporate Insolvency: A UK and US Perspective

Description

This book analyses corporate rescue laws, processes and policies prescribed in corporate insolvency or bankruptcy laws, and employment laws of the UK and the US, with a particular focus on how extant employee rights are treated when a debtor employer initiates corporate insolvency proceedings. The commencement of formal insolvency proceedings by an employer affects employees' rights and interests. Employment laws seek to protect employees' rights and interests, while insolvency laws seek to promote corporate rescue, which may entail workforce changes. Consequently, this creates a tension between whose interest insolvency law should give primacy of protection. The book analyses how corporate rescue processes such as administration, pre-pack business sales, company voluntary arrangements, receivership and liquidation impact employee rights and protection during corporate rescue proceedings in both jurisdictions. It goes on to address how the federal system of government in the US and the diffusion of power between federal and state law jurisdictions impact a uniform code of employee protection during Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganisation proceedings. The book considers how an interpretative approach to law (Dworkin's Interpretative Theory of Law) may be used to balance both employee protection and corporate rescue laws during corporate insolvency in the UK and the US. Of interest to academics, students and employment law practitioners, this book examines the tension between corporate rescue laws and employment protection laws during corporate insolvency in the US and the UK and how this tension may be remedied or balanced.

Contents

Table of Contents Table of Cases Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Preface Chapter One Corporate Rescue and Employment protection - Concepts, Policies and Processes Chapter Two Bankruptcy Legal Theory: The Traditionalist and Proceduralist Theoretical Models Chapter Three Employee Rights under US Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Reorganisations Chapter Four Institutional Challenges - The Federal v State Law Conundrum Chapter Five Interpretation as a Balancing Tool in the US - Applying Dworkin Chapter Six Employee Rights and Protection in the UK - TUPE Transfers and Business Sales Chapter Seven Balancing Corporate Rescue and Employment Protection in the UK - Applying Dworkin Chapter Eight: Conclusion - Latest legislative Developments and Substantive Matters

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