Bøker av Mark Butler

Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law covers The Equality Act 2010 and other anti-discrimination protections both within the UK legislation and in the context of EU law. The UK's approach to ensuring equality for the workforce is notoriously difficult to navigate, with various aspects of protection being contained and discussed across a range of statutory and non-statutory instruments. Although the Equality Act 2010 is often viewed as central to the equality laws of the UK, there are other key areas that must also be borne in mind, including atypical worker protection and family friendly regulation: each of these are discussed to sufficient detail to enable the reader to gain a working understanding of how each operates. In considering each of these key areas this text attempts to decipher and navigate each of them with the end user in mind. The protections, and the thresholds that need to be satisfied to acquire the protections, are broken down into their constituent parts and analysed using key case law and relevant codes of practices with a view to ensuring that their practical use is understood by the reader. Through adopting this approach the book ensures that the reader gets to grips with key concepts that protect on an equality footing. The text takes account of case law from both UK courts, and European Courts where this is needed. This helps show the interaction that UK and EU law has in the area of equality law, and that the systems are interdependent to some extent. For those wishing to go beyond the simple practical application of the law the text touches upon a number of academic debates that exist in the area of equality law, to further stimulate those with an interest in the law, but further to highlight some of the perceived weaknesses that exist with the UK's current approach to equality protection, and whets the appetite for further discussion.

When gangs of rioters, political activists and religious extremists descend on a small English town, stirred by corrupt politicians and officials, bent on bringing down the fabric of society, who will stand in their way? It's left to two amateur detectives, a gay marine, an escaped mental patient, oh, and a group of heavily armed Girl Guides. Not one of them under 70! Sleuths is a riotous story of crooked men who plot to destroy the British government, abolish the monarchy and shut down the bars. Their carefully laid plans suffer a hiccup when they arrest Lady Wilsbrough, a woman with more connections than a Google server and a late husband who hoarded more weapons than many small countries have. Her neighbours, Cathy and Lynda, aspiring detectives, who have their fingers on the pulse of the neighbourhood, particularly the men, get together with gay, transvestite marine Trevor and Wilsbrough's son, Oswald, a recent inmate of an institution for the laughably insane.Together with a grizzled hospital matron and the toughest bunch of girl guides ever to tote arms, they set out to right the wrongs and restore order. But with corrupt policemen, hapless MI5 agents and a rabid deluded sheikh to contend with, it's going to be an uphill struggle that can only end in a battle royale!Some unlikely allies come forth together with some sinister foes. One thing's for sure, the little town of Warminster, along with the halls of Westminster, will never be the same again. It is said the first casualty of war is the truth! Not when you arm enthusiastic pensioners with submachine guns and mortars, it isn't!Will the mismatched group prevail, or will the forces of the greedily evil play the final ace up their sleeve?

You don't need another self-help book full of pious finger-wagging. Life is tough enough without someone bright and shiny piling on the guilt.But if you're in a post-pandemic slump, bordering on burnout and wondering why you should even bother, Up Yours! is the book for you. Radical self-care crosses every aspect of life. It's mind, body and spirit - at work and home. The smallest change can make the biggest difference if you know why you're making it.Pursuing sustainable peak performance through a better, healthier and happier life involves self-awareness and self-compassion, far more than the usual suspects of sleep, diet and exercise.Up Yours! is packed with valuable information. It's a radical recharge if you've been running on empty for too long. There are no quick fixes or glib promises of overnight transformations here. Mark Butler won't nag you to eat your vegetables or implore you to hit the gym six days a week. Instead, he offers a clear, thoughtful understanding of what ails us and why we need to change. Mark writes as an experienced professional who has seen it all and lived much of it.