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16 May 2025 / Charles Wynn-Evans
Issue: 8116 / Categories: Features , Employment , Human rights
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Book reviews: Human Rights at Work: Reimagining Employment Law & Putting Human Rights to Work: Labour Law, the ECHR, and the Employment Relation

  • Authors: Alan Bogg, Hugh Collins, ACL Davies & Virginia Mantouvalou
  • Publisher: Hart Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781509938735
  • RRP: £33.29

  • Author: Philippa Collins
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780192894595
  • RRP: £99

Since the introduction of the Human Rights Act 1998, human rights principles have had an extensive impact on labour and employment law in relation to the interpretation, application and development of specific legal entitlements.

How individual human rights are treated in the workplace continues to be both topical and controversial, as is demonstrated by the various recent litigation concerning gender critical issues in the workplace. This was recently considered by the Court of Appeal in Higgs v Farmor’s School (The Archbishops' Council of the Church of England and others intervening) [2025] EWCA Civ 109, where it was held that dismissal of an employee for an objectively objectionable way of expressing a belief may not be discriminatory if objectively justified.

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