We're miles apart - disproportionate deductions from wages, industrial action, and human rights

Mead, David (2023) We're miles apart - disproportionate deductions from wages, industrial action, and human rights. Industrial Law Journal, 52 (1). pp. 1-33. ISSN 0305-9332

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Abstract

This article sets out a human rights-based critique of one aspect of the common law wage/work bargain: the rule that entitles employers to deduct an entire week's pay from those taking action short of strike, and who thereby perform most, but not all, of their contractual duties. It makes the case that that rule, established in Miles v Wakefield MDC and Wiluszynski v Tower Hamlets over 35 years ago, constitutes a disproportionate interference with an employee's right to strike and to take industrial action, under Article 11 of the ECHR. The article shows how such cases might be brought, depending on whether an employee is in the public or private sector and iterates the argument for implying a duty of 'rights-obedience' into the contract - either as a free-standing duty or as part of an expansion of the duty of mutual trust and confidence - as a corrective.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Human Rights and Public Protest Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Media, Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	16 Dec 2022 11:30
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2024 09:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/90259
DOI:	10.1093/indlaw/dwac037

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