Two book recommendations

The latest edition of Employment Law: An Adviser’s Handbook is out.

There are a number of attempts at a basic guide to employment law in one volume. This is by some way the best. It gives good, practical advice about the whole range of employment law that you are likely to encounter. And it makes the difficult legal issues as simple as possible, but no simpler.

If you buy just one book before your hearing, this should be it.

Employment Tribunal Remedies is a very different sort of book. It’s a dense practitioner’s text aimed at employment lawyers.

Unless you are dealing with a tricky problem in calculating compensation, it’s probably too much. And if you just want the basics, a more accessible general guide — such as Tamara’s — is more helpful.

But if you do have a tricky compensation problem, there is a good chance the answer is here. It deals in detail with all sorts of issues that other texts either touch on briefly or don’t address at all.

If you buy either book by clicking on one of the links above, FRU will receive a small cut of the price (about 5-6%).