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Employer Controls over Private Life

Name: Employer Controls over Private Life
Author: Ronald McCallum
ISBN: 9780868404509

by Ronald McCallum

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Overview

'Not since the eighteenth century have employers exercised such controls over the private lives of their workforces,' writes Ron McCallum in this provocative and timely book. Drawing on his own experience and a welter of recent legislation and court cases, McCallum shows how employers are increasingly extending their control over the time and the behaviour of their employees.

Rotating rosters, open-ended working hours and restrictions on outside employment are just a few of the methods used to assert control over employees in a range of industries and professions. McCallum looks overseas to compare trends, and puts a persuasive case for new limits on the capacity of employers to control their workforce.