Preface

PREFACE

This book is designed to provide up-to-date and relevant legal principles regarding a wide

range of employment and labour law issues that affect the Commonwealth Caribbean.

Although primarily an academic text, it will also provide the legal practitioner with insight into

the framework in which the legal principles evolved, and set out the parameters of essential

rules that constitute the bedrock of current employment and labour law practice. Our inten-

tion is to sensitise the reader to the increasing importance of this evolving area of law and the

role it plays in developing the jurisprudence of the region as it touches and concerns a large

segment of the populace: the workforce, their representatives and those who employ labour.

The desire is to succinctly introduce major areas of employment and labour law, and

explain in detail, where necessary, the current legal position in the countries being reviewed.

The book will thereafter explore how the law operates within the legal systems of the

Commonwealth Caribbean, taking into account the umbilical link to British jurisprudence and

the impact of other internationally recognised norms on regional growth and development.

Emerging employment and labour law issues, as well as recommendations for reform, will also

be discussed.

There is currently no parallel text on this subject. This book therefore represents an impor-

tant resource that will redound to the benefi t of all the jurisdictions within the Commonwealth

Caribbean.

We have sought to set out the law as at 16 December 2013.

Natalie Corthésy and Carla-Anne Harris-Roper,

Kingston, Jamaica