2The effects of EU membership on UK employment law
Aims and Objectives
After reading this chapter you should be able to:
- ■ Understand the background to UK membership of the EU
- ■ Understand what is meant by the supranational order
- ■ Understand the concepts of supremacy, direct effect, indirect effect and state liability and how they operate
- ■ Understand how EU labour has developed and how it impacts on UK employment law
- ■ Critically analyse the area
- ■ Apply the law to factual situations and reach conclusions
2.1 UK membership of the European Union
2.1.1 Introduction
Many areas of English Law have now developed beyond recognition as a result of the UK joining what originally was the European Economic Community (EEC), later the European Community ...
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