Employment Contracts and Employer Obligations

Employment Relationships and Legal Sources

Relationship Types

Voluntary Relationships: Employees (salaried, personal, dependent)
Special Relationships: Senior management, domestic servants, prisoners, deportees, professionals and artists in public performances, disabled individuals in employment centers.
Excluded Relationships: Company officers, board of directors, work based on friendship or family ties up to second-degree consanguinity, benefit obligations.

Legal Sources

  • Company policies
  • Customs and
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Individualism, Nation, and State in the Era of Revolution

Unit 10: Old Regime and Revolution: Change and Persistence

10.1. On the Bourgeois Revolution

In the context of the French Revolution, the goal was to build a new individual and new ways of organizing society. The English Revolution sought to recover old English forms. In contrast, during the second half of the eighteenth century, popular discourse focused on ruptures linked to the American Revolution. Revolution emerged as an abrupt and disorderly change in public affairs. Both traditional and novel

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Federal Tax Credit and Administrative Acts in Mexico

Federal Tax Credit and Administrative Acts

Place and Date of Issuance

Acts will be notified at the Angelis office and may be consulted.

Resources

Decisions will be made on all proposed items, matching background calls and completing every order.

LFPA Exceptions

  • Contributions (taxes, transfers of social security contributions for improvements and rights)
  • Federal MP
  • Foreign Trade
  • Unfair Competition
  • Actions of Public Servants

CFF Requirements (Art. 38)

  • Written or digital document
  • Issuing authority
  • Place and date
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Post-WWII World: Peace, Consequences, and Functionalism

Peace and its Consequences (1945)

The Yalta Conference (USSR, February): Churchill (UK), Roosevelt (USA), and Stalin (USSR) agreed on:

  • Allied occupation of Germany and Japan
  • Division of Germany into four zones (UK, France, USA, USSR)
  • Creation of the United Nations (UN)

The Potsdam Conference (USA, July): Churchill (UK), Truman (USA), and Stalin (USSR) agreed to send Nazi leaders to the International Court of Justice (Nuremberg Trials).

Birth of the United Nations

Created at the 1945 San Francisco Conference

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Social Inclusion and the Welfare State: An Ethical Perspective

Ethical and Social Inclusion in the Welfare State

Altruistic cooperation forms the ethical basis of social work, establishing the dignity of all people. Humans, as rational beings, shape their world and transform their environment. The welfare state is the context within which social inclusion and exclusion processes operate in our time. It represents a societal project founded on individual dignity, requiring both material and relational fulfillment.

The Human Project and the Creation of Values

According

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Spain’s 17th-Century Decline: From Habsburg Hegemony to Crisis

Philip III (1598-1621)

Lacking interest in politics, Philip III focused on hunting and gambling, delegating power to the Duke of Lerma. This led to favoritism, court relocation, and the political resurgence of the high nobility.

Foreign Policy

A pacifist approach marked Philip III’s reign. The death of England’s Elizabeth I and Spain’s financial ruin led to the Twelve Years’ Truce with the Netherlands.

Domestic Policy

The expulsion of the Moriscos, driven by religious intolerance and a desire to display

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Primo de Rivera Era: Dictatorship and Transition in Spain

The Primo de Rivera Coup (1923)

The 20th century saw Spain’s first dictatorship emerge from a coup led by Primo de Rivera. Several international factors contributed to this, including the aftermath of World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution’s triumph, the rise of Italian Fascism (though Rivera wasn’t a Fascist, King Alfonso XIII called him “my Mussolini”), and the democratic crisis exacerbated by the 1929 economic crash. Internal factors included the exhaustion of the Restoration system, the army’s

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Plato’s Philosophy: Knowledge, Ethics, and Politics

Plato’s Philosophy

Knowledge

Plato aimed to refute the skepticism and relativism of the Sophists. He believed that true knowledge is universal and unchanging, exemplified by mathematical knowledge. This knowledge is essential for achieving virtue and a fulfilling life.

Plato presented two paths to knowledge:

  • Knowing is Remembering (Reminiscence): Plato’s dualism of the immortal soul and the mortal body suggests that the soul possesses innate knowledge from the ideal world. Learning is a process of
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Reign of Isabel II: Liberalism and Carlist Wars in Spain

Regency of Maria Cristina (1833 – 1840)

In the final years of Fernando VII’s life, Isabel de Borbón was born. Anticipating a female heir, the king approved the Pragmatic Sanction, abolishing the Salic Law which excluded women from the throne. Carlos María Isidro was thus barred from succession, leading to the First Carlist War (1833-1839).

First Carlist War (1833-1839)

The war pitted Isabel’s supporters (army, Church, State, and Liberals) against the Carlists (supporters of absolutism and traditional

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Population Studies: Key Terms and Concepts

A

Asylum

Protection granted by a state to someone who has left their home country as a political refugee.

Alien

A person who is not a citizen or national of the country in which they are living.

C

Census

An official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals.

Modern Cycle

A period in demographic history characterized by low birth rates and low mortality, resulting in slow natural growth.

Zero Population Growth

A situation in which a country’s birth and death rates are

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