Understanding Employment Contract Termination: Articles 159-161

Article 159: Termination of Employment Contract

The employment contract will end in the following cases:

  1. Mutual agreement of the parties.
  2. Resignation of the employee, giving notice to the employer with at least thirty days’ notice.
  3. Death of the worker.
  4. Deadline agreed in the contract.
  5. Conclusion of the work or service which gave rise to the contract.
  6. Unforeseeable circumstances or force majeure.

Article 160: Termination Without Compensation

The employment contract ends without the right to compensation when

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Legal Concepts: Facts, Acts, and the Law Explained

Legal Concepts: Key Definitions

1. Legal Fact: Defined as an occurrence of nature or an event caused by humans, without the intent to cause legal consequences.

2. Legal Act: A voluntary or conscious human action that seeks to immediately establish legal relationships between people, creating, modifying, or extinguishing rights.

3. Difference Between Fact and Act: A legal fact is involuntary, while a legal act is voluntary.

4. Concept of Force Majeure and Fortuitous Event:

  • Force Majeure: Events that cannot
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Understanding Labor Remuneration and Social Benefits

Remuneration (Articles 103 to 115)

It is considered salary or compensation any financial benefit a subordinate worker receives as consideration for their labor. The consideration is the disposal of the worker to the employer.

Features:

  • Inputs: discounts for social security contributions.
  • The employer’s party to pay social security.

Taken into account to settle: bonus (paid in June and December), vacation.

To be seized, if they have to pay for holidays, vacation, and sick leave.

Article 103 BIS: Social

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Understanding Representative Democracy, Rights, and the Rule of Law

Representative Democracy: An Overview

In a representative democracy, citizens elect representatives to govern and establish laws. Direct participation procedures, such as referendums and jury duty, also play a role.

Universal Suffrage

Universal suffrage means that all adults have the right to vote, regardless of their profession, sex, or social condition.

Rights and the Law

Right (Goal): A set of principles and rules that govern human relations in society. These should be established as follows:

  • Positive
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Understanding Domination and Bureaucracy: Weber’s Concepts

The state is a relationship of domination of men over men, based on the means of coercion considered legitimate. For that rule to exist, men must submit to authority.

All domination is expressed and functions as a form of government. Any system of government needs domain. The power of command may have a modest appearance and can be considered a leader of the dominated. Dominance can occur in ways other than direct democracy, which is called democratic because it rests on the assumption that everyone

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Canonical Form Requirements for Religious Marriage

Religious marriage requires specific capacity and a consent form. Consent alone is insufficient; a formal, responsive instrument of consent declared by the parties is necessary. This instrument aims to provide objective evidence of the act for legal significance, either publicly or privately, in the presence of two witnesses.

Form vs. Celebration

The form of the act (the receptive instrument of consent) differs from the form of the celebration (the issuance of consent).

Purpose of Form

The form serves

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