Understanding Employment Law: Regimes, Contracts, and Torts

Chapter 1: Common Law of Employment

Common Law Regime

Judge-made rules of contract and tort law

Regulatory Standards Regime

Employment standards, human rights, health safety

Pay equity, compensation

Stare Decisis (Stand by previous decision)

1) Common Law Regime

a) Law of Employment Contracts (Rules of contract law applied to contracts between employer and individual employees)

b) Law of Torts: Judge-made legal wrongs not based in contract (nuisance, negligence, battery, defamation)

The Law of Torts

Torts

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Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in India

Unfair Labour Practices and Penalties

Section 2(ra) defines unfair labour practices as any of the practices specified in the 5th schedule to the act. The 5th schedule enumerates unfair labour practices on the part of employers and trade unions of employers, as well as workmen and trade unions of workmen.

Unfair Trade Practices on the Part of Employers and Trade Union of Employers

  1. Threatening workmen with discharge or dismissal if they join a trade union.
  2. Threatening a lockout or closure if a trade union
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Understanding Marriage: A Legal and Historical Perspective

ITEM 4: Marriage in General

1. Matrimony and Right

No legal institution produces as many legal effects as marriage. At the beginning of the study of marriage, we must address two erroneous views:

a) Panajurídica:

The belief that marriage is only a legal link, sustained by feelings. It was said that marriage is an island that the sea of law should cherish but not absorb.

b) Panasociológica:

The belief that marriage is only sociological, meaning that marriage is not what the law says but what spouses

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Civil Procedure Code: A Comprehensive Guide to Key Provisions

Interpleader Suits

Section 88 of Order 35 deals with interpleader suits. In most cases, the dispute is between the plaintiff and the defendant. An interpleader suit is a suit in which the real dispute is not between the defendant and the plaintiff but between the defendants only, and the plaintiff is not really interested in the subject matter of the suit. Section 88 enacts that where two or more persons claim adversely to one another the same debt, sum of money, or other property, movable or immovable,

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Investment Cycle Analysis and Financing: A Comprehensive Guide

INVESTMENT CYCLE ANALYSIS AND FINANCING

Investment

Implementation of financial resources to increase financial AF or an entity.

Funding

Sources where you can get capital to invest.

Types of Financing

  • Money for Time
  • Fixed Assets: Short-term trade credit, bank debentures.
  • Goods: Long-term mortgages, stocks, bonds, lease.

Bonus

Performance by a loan made without the company obligations.

Basics of the Investment Process

  1. Rendimiento Expected or Compensation: Profitability is expected to have for investment.
  2. Riesgo
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Ownership and Possession: A Comprehensive Guide

Jurists have defined ownership in different ways. All of them accept the right of ownership as the complete or supreme right that can be exercised over anything. Thus, according to Hibbert ownership includes four kinds of rights within itself.
  • Right to use a thing
  • Right to exclude others from using the thing
  • Disposing of the thing
  • Right to destroy it.

Austin’s definition


Austin while defining ownership has focused on the three main attributes of ownership, namely, indefinite user, unrestricted disposition
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