Chilean Presidential Election and Powers: An Overview

Chilean Presidential Elections and Powers

The Electoral System

Chile’s electoral system, established by the 1980 Constitution (CPR), is a two-round system, also known as a double-shift system. This replaced a previous system that allowed a candidate to win the presidency with less than a majority of the electorate.

Key Features:

  1. Elections are held 90 days after the end of the previous president’s term.
  2. A candidate wins with an absolute majority of valid votes (blank and null votes are not counted).
  3. If
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Personnel Selection, Contracts, Remuneration, and Social Insurance

Personnel Selection and Recruitment Tools

Personnel selection is the process of choosing individuals with the greatest potential to adapt to a position and meet organizational needs. The primary goal is to find the most suitable candidate, considering both company and employee requirements.

Recruitment Tools

  • Capacity Test: Measures intellectual capacity or general intelligence. It’s a high-validity test assessing staff resilience, though not job-specific.
  • Personality and Psychological Tests: Evaluate
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Chilean Company Law & Regulations

Task Legislation

Commercial Acts

Article 3 defines acts of trade as those undertaken as part of a business by one or both contracting parties. These include:

  1. Purchase and exchange of movable goods intended for resale, barter, or lease, and the subsequent sale, exchange, or lease of these goods. Ancillary purchases or barters to complement core industrial operations are excluded.
  2. Purchase of a commercial establishment.
  3. Lease of movable goods with the intent to sublet.
  4. Commercial commission or mandate.
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Collective Bargaining & Contract Law in Mexico

Collective Bargaining Agreement

Definition

A collective bargaining agreement is established between one or more trade unions and one or more employers (or employers’ organizations) to define working conditions.

Article 388: Multiple Unions

  1. If industrial unions are involved, the collective contract held by the union representing the largest number of workers within the enterprise prevails.
  2. If craft unions are involved, collective bargaining occurs with all major unions representing the professions, if
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Surface Rights in Brazil: Ownership and Usage

Note Lecture 14: Surface

1. Legal Basis

Arts. 1368-1375 Civil Code and City Statute (Law 10.257/01) – Arts. 21-24.

2. Objective

Flexibility of land use and encouragement of building without property purchase, facilitating compliance with the social function duty by the property owner, relieving the owner from charges and taxes, which transfer to the landowner.

3. Concept

The real right to have a building or planting on foreign soil. (Orlando Gomes)

4. Content

Occurs in a double field, separating land ownership

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Legal Concepts: Exclusivity, Analogy, Life, Validity, Equity, and Responsibility

1. Theory of Exclusive or General Negative Norm

This theory, championed by Ernesto Zitelmann, posits that there are no irrelevant legal facts and no gaps in the law. Every legal rule implicitly contains a second standard, excluding all unanticipated events, which are regulated by an antithetical legal principle. This second standard is the general exclusive norm. For example, a rule prohibiting cigarette exports implicitly allows the export of all other items. This is encapsulated in the closing

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