Understanding Labor Law: Principles, Subjects, and Key Concepts
Contents of Labor Law
Labor law encompasses two main aspects: the regulatory or legislative order (substantive law) and the procedural aspects of employment law.
1. Substantive Law:
a) The substantive rules designed to protect subordinate workers, relating to labor standards in individual employment contracts, and the rights and obligations of the parties involved.
2. Procedural Law:
Oversight in this respect can be distinguished into:
- An administrative stage, managed by the Department of Labor through
Understanding the Pension System in Chile: Key Features and Benefits
The Beginning of the Work of Unaffiliated Workers
According to the provisions of Article 2 of Decree No. 3.500, the start of the work of an unaffiliated worker generates automatic membership to the system and the obligation to contribute to a Pension Fund Administrator.
What Does Membership Mean?
According to Article 2, paragraph two, affiliation is the legal relationship between a worker and the Pension System of Aging, Disability, and Survivorship, which incurs rights and obligations established
Read MoreChilean Constitution of 1925: History, Reforms, and Key Features
CONSTITUTION OF 1925
Background: In 1924, Chilean President Arturo Alessandri Palma faced a predominant legislative power over other state powers. On September 5, 1924, officers, objecting to the establishment of a parliamentary allowance detrimental to the armed forces’ financial claims, initiated a military uprising. This led to President Alessandri being granted permission to leave the country for 6 months, and parliament was dissolved.
In January 1925, the President was asked to return from
Spanish Labor Law: Unions, Collective Bargaining, and Strikes
Articles of Labor Law
Article 7: Guarantees the establishment and freedom to form unions and business associations to defend economic interests.
Article 28: Establishes the right to freedom of association and the freedom of workers to elect union representatives.
Article 37: Guarantees the right to collective bargaining for employee representatives.
Freedom of Association
- Content of the right: Free association and freedom for workers’ unions.
- Procedure for acquiring legal status of trade unions.
- Concept
Ownership Acquisition and Loss: Civil Code Essentials
NOTE LESSON 03
Acquisition and Loss of Ownership
1. Acquisition of Ownership – According to Article 1204 of the Civil Code, ownership is acquired from the moment it becomes possible to exercise it in one’s own name. Possession can be acquired in two ways:
1.1. Originates
This occurs without the vices that defiled the predecessor’s possession.
1.1.1. Apprehension of Thing
This means seizing possession, a shift of the thing to the owner’s domain, or the use of the thing if it is property. It consists of
Read MoreCivil Law Essentials: Possession, Property Rights, and Inheritance
Review 1
1. Savigny’s theory of possession emphasizes the subjective element. It distinguishes between property (legal power) and possession (material power), where property is a right in law, and possession is a de facto situation.
2. Things that can be owned include all tangible items within commerce, natural forces, and immaterial things like industrial property or copyright.
3. Treasure refers to hidden caches of money, jewels, or precious objects of unknown legitimate ownership.
4. Copyright protection
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