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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793984503321

Autore

Nsubuga Hamiisi Junior

Titolo

Employee rights in corporate insolvency : a UK and US perspective / / Hamiisi Junior Nsubuga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2020

ISBN

1-000-73111-1

1-000-73081-6

0-429-32968-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 pages)

Collana

Routledge Research in Corporate Law

Disciplina

346.73078

Soggetti

Bankruptcy - United States

Bankruptcy - Great Britain

Employee rights - United States

Employee rights - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Corporate rescue and employment protection - concepts, policies and processes -- Bankruptcy legal theory : the traditionalist and proceduralist theoretical models -- Employee rights under US Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganizations -- Institutional challenges - the federal vs state law conundrum -- Intrepretation as a balancing tool in the US - applying Dworkin -- Employee rights and protection in the UK - TUPE transfers and business sales -- Balancing corporate rescue and employment protection in the UK - applying Dworkin -- Conclusion - latest legislative developments and substantive matters.

Sommario/riassunto

"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. 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, prepack 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 - 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"--