Description
Product ID: | 9780367321543 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Routledge Research in Corporate Law |
Title: | Employee Rights in Corporate Insolvency |
Subtitle: | A UK and US Perspective |
Authors: | Author: Hamiisi Nsubuga |
Page Count: | 182 |
Subjects: | International business, International business, Personnel and human resources management, Sales and marketing management, Sales and marketing, Law and society, sociology of law, International law, Company law, Employment and labour law: general, Personnel & human resources management, Sales & marketing management, Sales & marketing, Law & society, International law, Company law, Employment & labour law, The Americas |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This book analyses corporate rescue laws, processes and policies prescribed in corporate insolvency or bankruptcy laws, and employment laws of the United Kingdom and the United States, with a particular focus on how extant employee rights are treated when a debtor employer initiates corporate insolvency proceedings. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-10-10 |