Patricia Leighton

Professor Patricia Leighton is currently Emeritus Professor of Employment and former Jean Monnet Professor of European Law at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. She has researched and written widely on employment law matters, particularly for HRM practitioners. Her publications include The New Employment Contract (1995) Nicholas Brealey Publications, Discrimination and the Law: Fitness for Purpose (2004) CIPD and Out of the Shadows: Managing self-employed, agency and outsourced staff (2007) ButterworthHeinemann. She has been a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium for whom she undertakes projects and consultancy work. She has recently undertaken research projects for the European Commission, the Legal Services Commission, the then Equal Opportunities Commission and other bodies on various aspects of discrimination in the workplace. She runs the PEEL Club (Personnel Experts In Employment Law) for CAPITA Learning and Development, and works as a consultant to a number of professional bodies concerned with recruitment.

Books by this author:

Effective Recruitment - A Practical Guide to Staying Within the Law Most HR practitioners report consistently that recruiting staff is one of their priority topics. Their basic need is to have undertaken that task in an effective, unproblematic way. The ways to undertake the task continue to grow, making the decision as to how best to recruit for a given employment situation more complex. This specialist text is responding to a number of imperatives, including legal ones.

EU Employment Law - A Practical Guide This Briefing effectively explains the practical impact of law, especially case law, from the European Court of Justice and distinguishes how this law works compared with the common law and UK legislation.