Paul Rice

All commercial pilots particulaly Captains need to have an understanding of employment law.

As commerical pressures grow and grow conflict can arise between the flight deck, making sound safety based decisions and management hell bent on holding the organisation together financially and more importantly hitting their bonus targets.

When pressure comes on from managemnt having a clear understanding of employemnt law can give you confidence in rebutting some of their more silly ideas.

I would recommend therefore Employment Law by Deborah J Lockton be read in general outline by all pilots and kept on the shelf to hand when the inevitable bust up happens.

Basic knowledge is needed because when it comes to these matters you will find BALPA keen to shirk all responsibility and can be pretty clueless when it comes to the employment regualtions and laws.